Quotes

I find that quotes can center me when I feel I’m overwhelmed or stressed. Just a few words can put me back on track or bring about that epiphany moment! I wanted to share with you quotes that I find inspiring to me. I hope that you to will find inspiration from these worlds as well. 
I will continue to add to this section of my blog =)

"There was a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."  - Voltaire



"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time". - Winston Churchill



"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."  - Henri Nouwen

"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent." - Rumi

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little."- Unknown

"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a freash start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford
 
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."- Martin Luther King Jr.


"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." - Pablo Picasso

"Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives." -  Frederick F. Flack

"Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." -  Louis E. Boone

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect." - Joan Didion