"For a along time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

Alfred D. Souza

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.  There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

George Eliot

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so to have the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell

"The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people.  These gifts can only be given to you by yourself.  They are at home in the hearth of your soul."

John O'Donohue

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house, a world, and beyond its world, a heaven.  Know then that world exists for you."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

"Success is every minute you live.  It's the process of living.  It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace.  Success is not a destination that you ever reach.  Success is the quality of the journey."

Jennifer James

"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.  Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful."

John 14:27