"Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been."  --

David Bowie 

"There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts."  --Helen Fagin

"In the Warsaw Ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland, 21-year-old Helen Fagin defied the fascist regime by secretly teaching Jewish children mathematics, Latin, and the transportive wonders of literature. After smuggling in a copy of “Gone With the Wind,” Fagin recounted the story of Scarlett O’Hara to her enraptured class. In a letter penned more than 75 years later, Fagin reflected on the power of hope and dreams, recalling how she was forever touched by the way the gripping tale was able to free her young students from the horrors of their reality."  inspiringquotes.com

We shall not cease from exploration 

And the end of all our exploring 

Will be to arrive where we started 

And know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, remembered gate

When the last of earth left to discover

Is that which was the beginning;

At the source of the longest river

The voice of the hidden waterfall

And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for 

But heard, half heard, in the stillness

Between the two waves of the sea.

--T.S. Eliot

"Patience is also a form of action."  --Auguste Rodin

"I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."  --Viola Davis

She was the first Black woman to collect an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy, aka the Triple Crown of Acting. 

"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."  --Pema Chödrön

"The man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something."  --Vincent van Gogh