Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

-Sylvia Plath

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

-Anais Nin

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

-Annie Dillard

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

-Hannah Arrendt

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

-Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting completed my life.

-Frida Kahlo

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

-Louisa May Alcott

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest; as if it was the only one we had.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.

-Rosa Parks

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

-Billie Jean King

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

-Katharine Hepburn