If we're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on.

(Sheryl Sandberg)

 The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

(Alfred Adler)

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

(Madame Swetchine)

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

(Anne Lamott)

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

(George Washington)

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

(Logan Pearsall Smith)

I want to tell you to just live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsion of the world.

(Joan Didion)