Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward Everett Hale

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.  -Rumi

We have a desire to make something out of the feelings we have. -Matthew Weiner

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively

Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. -Giorgos Seferis

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. -Toni Morrison

“As my verbal footprint? I would say that this time on earth is to be lived fully, to be enjoyed, to be of service to somebody else, not just one’s self, and that to live fully should be the goal.” -Jessye Norman

One who works with their hands is a laborer; one who works with their hands and brain is a craftsperson; but one who works with their hands and brain and heart is an artist. -Louis Nizer