It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. —Epictetus

...and I whispered to the horse; trust no man in whose eye you don’t see yourself reflected as an equal. —Don Vincenzo Giobbe circa 1700

At its finest, rider and horse are joined not by tack, but by trust. Each is totally reliant upon the other....Each is the selfless guardian of the other’s very well being. —J. Michael Plumb

Problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions. —sign on a PA gas station

Fear sees obstacles where faith sees opportunities.
—sign on a PA gas station

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. —Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. —Mark Twain

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our
goal. —Goethe

There can be no love without respect. —Kim Walnes

Trust transmutes fear into courage. — Kim Walnes

We must be the change we wish to see in the
world. —Mahatma Gandhi

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the live that is waiting
for us. —Joseph Campbell

Got to learn how to stop thinking without falling asleep. —The Movie, Bagger Vance

It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. —Pable Casals

The ultimate reward for human toil is not what we get from it, but what we become by it. —John Ruskin (1800’s)

The ultimate reward man toil is not what we get from it, but what we become by it. —John Ruskin (1800’s)

When you come right down to it, perfection isn’t all that interesting; the right flaw can take you much farther than perfection ever could.” —Bartabas (creator & director of Zingaro)

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive….A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. —Albert Einstein

When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive.
—Author unknown; circa 1900

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Walk courageously into your life.

…look out at everything growing so wild and faithfully beneath the sky & wonder why we are the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our flowering.