Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

~Laurens van der Post

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."

~Comte de Buffon

"Hope is only the love of life."

~Henri-Frédéric Amiel

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

~Igor Stravinsky

"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships."

~Harriet Lerner

"History never looks like history when you are living through it."

~John W. Gardner

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

~Arthur Christopher Benson

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

- Gandhi

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

~Napoleon Bonaparte

Trust your own instinct.  Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

~Billy Wilder