“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi

“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.” ― Karen E. Quinones Miller

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.--Ray Kroc

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. —James Baldwin

“There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.” ― Erin Hunter

“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”

― Haruki Murakami

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.” - Anne Lamott

“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to the other side.

You can go around it.

You can dig under it.

You can fly over it.

You can blow it up.

You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.

You can turn around and go back the way you came.

Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”

― Vera Nazarian

“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.” ― The Prolific Penman

the day rose to remind me
in the atrium of morning
that even in the most delicate of places
there's still a little bit of hell left
on my sun soothed fingers
and by the time night falls
the universe will continue to spiral and
I'll keep pouring myself
into the glass you will
never drink from.

-o.jardine

(quote from the second book in my series)