Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
– Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
– Charles Caleb Colton

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits. To break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
– Anaïs Nin, 1903 – 1977

I have been misunderstood by a lot of people, simply because I don’t talk a lot. And when I do talk, people think I am an angry person. I’m not an angry person, because I feel that an angry person is not a successful person.
– Henry Aaron (1934-)

Expressing your enthusiasm can add years of creative life to your time on earth.
– Marsha Sinetar