Scars

"A scar is never ugly...we must see all scars as beauty. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived."
-Chris Cleave Little Bee

Middle

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
-Robert Frost

System

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
-Peter Drucker

Talent

"A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage...The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."
-Sydney Smith

Colors

"As a child you were taught to see the world in geometric shapes and primary colors. It was as if the adults needed to equip you with more accomplishments. ("She knows her colors!") Then you had to spend the rest of your life unlearning them. That was life, as near as she could tell. Making everything simple for the first ten years, which in turn made everything more complicated for the subsequent seventy."
-Ann Brashares  Girls in Pants

Change

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
-Anatole Frances

Friends

"In friendship… we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years difference in the dates of our birth, a few more miles between certain houses, a choice of one university instead of another… —any one of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly, no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “You have not chosen me,but I have chosen you,” can truly be said to every group of Christian friends, “You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.” The friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauty of others."-C.S.Lewis