The Rose

But she that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ~Anne Bronte

Go For It

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. ~Bill Cosby

Art

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman ~Jean-Michel Basquiat

Helping

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~Audrey Hepburn

Stand Up

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Joy

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~Rumi

Poet

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~W. H. Auden

Differences

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ~Audre Lorde

Jealousy

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. ~Rodney Dangerfield

Summer

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams

Stop Struggling

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. ~Pema Chödrön

Circle

I seemed to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. ~Jeanette Winterson

Write

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
~Anaïs Nin

A Woman

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. ~Gilda Radner

Friendship

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle

Sorrow

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran

Becoming

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I am in a love relationship that does not lead another person to them self, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming. ~Leo Buscaglia

Awakening

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ~Adrienne Rich

Writer

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. ~Grace Paley

Blaze

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished. ~Luisa Sigea