The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
- William Connor Magee
"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm."
- Cicely Tyson
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
- Audre Lord
"The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world."
- Bertie Charles Forbes
"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
- Leo Rosten
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
- Doris Lessing
"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."
- Julia Cameron
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
- Gilda Radner
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
- Peter Marshall
I learn by going where I have to go."
- Theodore Roethke
Freedom lies in being bold."
- Robert Frost
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James
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