“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” -Abraham Maslow
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
–Dr. Seuss
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” – Hippocrates 400 BC
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin
People are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.”- Epictetus
"A person who is beginning to sense suffering of life, is, at the same time, beginning to awaken to deeper realities, truer realities. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal fictions about reality, and forces us to become alive in a special sense – to see carefully, to feel deeply, to touch ourselves and our world in ways we have heretofore avoided… truly I think, that suffering is the first grace." - Ken Wilber
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…Do the thing you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.- Pablo Picasso
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson