"Everygreat work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before thebigachievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement." ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
"Most of all the otherbeautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one Mother in the whole world." ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
"The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmicmeasure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers." ~ Rabindranath Tagore