Life is summed up in two words

"l'humaine sagesse était tout entière dans ces deux mots: attendre et espérer!" ("all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'Wait and Hope'").

Alexandre Dumas

 Anaïs Nin 1903–77

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.

Possibility never disappoints

 "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. " - Soren Kierkegaard

 “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”

Vincent Van Gogh

 Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

Carl Jung

 “Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people.”

- Leo Tolstoy

Purpose of Life

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

 Ralph Waldo Emerson