~Lady Hawk-Passages~

Within each of us
lies the power of our
consent to riches and
to poverty, to freedom
and to slavery. It is we
who control these, and not
another.

-Richard Bach (b. 1936)
American Writer

To be on the cutting edge,
you need an edge to cut
with. That edge is your
belief in yourself sharp
and ready to go.

-Sara Ryan,
American Artist.

We make progress by
a constant spiraling
back and forth between
the inner world and the
outer one, the personal
and the political, the
self and the circumstances.
Nature doesn't move in a
straight line, and as
part of nature, neither
do we.

-Gloria Steinam
(b. 1934)
American activist
writer and editor

Although the world
is very full of suffering,
it is also full of the
overcoming of it.

-Helen Keller,
American writer &
lecturer

What the caterpillar
calls the end of the
world, the Master calls
a butterfly.

-Richard Bach
(b. 1936)
American Writer

All changes, even the
most longed for, have
their melancholy; for
what we leave behind us
is a part of ourselves; we
must die to one life before
we can enter another.

-Anatole France
(1844-1924)
French Writer

....if one advances
confidently in the
direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has
imagined, he will
meet with a success
unexpected in common
hours.

-Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
American Writer

Run a moist pen
through everything
and start afresh.

-Charles Dickens
(1832-1870)
English Writer

Life is not a matter
of holding good cards,
but of playing a poor
hand well.

-Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1895)
Scottish Writer

All life is an
experiment.

-Oliver Wendall Homes, Jr.
(1841-1935)
American jurist

A man is happy
so long as he chooses
to be happy and
nothing can stop him.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(b. 1918)
Russian Writer

You must be the
change you wish to
see in the world.

-Mohandas Ghandi
(1869-1948)
Indian Leader

Tomorrow is the
most important thing
in life.