“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”  — from movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by Dumbledore

It was a small idea. But at least the idea was mine. -from book Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” — Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (1865)

“You do drink don’t you?” “Of course. I just said I was a writer.” — From movie Room 1408 (Stephen King)

“Now, you listen to me, James Hawkins. You got the makings of greatness in you, but you gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes, you’ll get the chance to really test the cut of your sails, and show what you’re made of … well, I hope I’m there, catching some of the light coming off you that day.” — From movie Treasure Planet (Disney)

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory o

“To change your life, you must start, quite simply, by changing the way you see it.” — Amber Lyon in You Are A Magnet

" Every hour of the day give vigorous attention... to the performance of the task in hand with precise analysis... and to vacating your mind from all its other thoughts. And you will achieve this vacation if you perform each action as if it were the last of your life... Life for each of us is a mere moment. " - Marcus Aurelius This may or may not be the push you needed to get moving. But even if it's not, Marcus Aurelius definitely reminds us that life is finite and we shoul