"Like weary wave, thought flows upon thought, but the still depth beneath is all thine own."
                                          - George MacDonald

"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.  To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all."

                                                     - Achaan Chaa

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom."

                           - Anais Nin

"The soul stirs within its chrysalis, dreaming that it will one day be an angel.It will."

               - Lou Andreas-Salome