Maya Angelou

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

Maya Angelou

Lou Holtz

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

Lou Holtz

Adversity

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

Gilda Radner

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity."

Gilda Radner

Anaïs Nin

"The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror."

"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive."

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."

"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."

"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women, to enter ordinary relationships, I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."