“ Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ”

Howard Thurman

“ We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ”

Joseph Campbell

“ My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother. ”

Sharon Doubiago

“ The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow, for children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby and babies don't keep. ”

Ruth Hamilton

“ How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. ”

Jane Austen