"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." Eleanor Roosevelt
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressable comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring them right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, throw the rest away." Dina Maria Mulock (from "A Life for a Life")
"There are two sorts of girl. The one who feels mournful that all eyes are on her. And the one who is happily convinced that they are." Samantha Armstrong
"Young people do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation." Pearl Buck (from "The Goddess Abides")