Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

~Langston Hughes~

"Be not afraid of greatness:
some are born great,
some achieve greatness
and some have greatness thrust upon them."

~William Shakespeare~
(Twelfth Night, Quote Act II, Scene V)

"Look not from the mind, but from the soul
For the life that is coming is already before us
waiting to open up the world.
Just look more closely.
Find the eyes to see."

~from the First Insight
of The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield

Best friends are quiet angels
who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly...

Persistenceby Les Brown ( Read more... )

As a wise friend of mine told me the day after my accident:

"You can’t truly respect someone until you’ve seen them at their worst.
For, from that, our true humanity springs."

Experience is not what happens to a man,
it is what a man does with what happens to him.

~Aldous Huxley~

"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight ( Read more... )

"If you keep doing what you always do,
You will keep getting what you always get."

~friend's words of wisdom~

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow. When we have not yet known what is to have suffered and healed. To have despaired and recovered hope."
~George Eliot~

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. It is never fixed, marked that looks on tempus and is never shaken up. ( Read more... )