We can’t erase our past, but we can loosen the grip it has on us. ~~ Louise Kaufmann

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road. ~~ Beatrice Wood

Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. ~~ David McCullough, Jr.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~~ Mary Oliver

. . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson