You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . .
The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it . . .
You must make yourself do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I never found
a companion that
was so companionable
as solitude.
–Henry David Thoreau
When I admire the wonders
of a sunset or the
beauty of the moon,
my soul expands
in the worship of
the creator
-Mahatma Gandhi
“He who would be what he ought to be must stop being
what he is.”
-Meister Eckhart
Susan's Musings by the Sea