"If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?" ~Naomi Shihab Nye ('Habibi')

"Life isn't about having a good hand, but playing a poor hand well." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that enclosed your understanding." ~Kahlil Gibran

"In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~Robert Frost "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life gives you things you never expect, and sometimes it doesn't give you what you have every right to expect." ~Gretchen Woelfe

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." ~Janis Joplin "Life is ours to be spent, not saved." ~D.H. Lawrence "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." ~Sigmund Freud

"They say,'A day without laughter is a day not lived,' but a life without tears is a life not lived." ~Anonymous

"The only way to find out who you are is to get to the place where you don't have to be anything else." ~Anonymous

"Life is like a car...you can look in the rearview mirror and see where you've been...but you always have to keep an eye on the road ahead." ~Anonymous

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~Anonymous

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy." ~Janet Long