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

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is the pain of discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. ~~ Jim Rohn

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. ~~ Lao Tzu