Bold

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

- J. W. von Goethe

And...Amen

"I know I will never be liked by everyone, but I want to at least like myself in an authentic way that doesn't translate as smug."-Cjane here

My Kind of Style

"During my first year as a high school English teacher, my supervising teacher wanted me to implement a “check marks on the board” method of discipline (it worked for her), but I found it frankly exhausting and not in keeping with the kinds of interpersonal relationships I wanted to develop with my students. Instead, I adopted a kind of “Hey, let’s get to know each other and trust each other and respect each other and hopefully that will work, but if it doesn’t I reserve the right to briefly lose it, and then we can get back to trusting and respecting each other again.” For the most part, this strategy worked for me. Except when it didn’t." -Angela from here

Still point of the turning world

from Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot

Time past and time future
  What might have been and what has been
          Point to one end, which is always present...
          At the still point of the turning world 

           Where past and future are gathered.

Wheat

“If you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of wonder.” -Martin Luther

You Are

"Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are." – Jim Henson

Gloaming

"In Scotland they have a word for the limbic space between life and death—it’s the same word they use to describe that time when it’s not quite day… but it’s not quite night. It’s a word that describes the nether space that hovers in between any two things, neither one nor the other. They call it the gloaming." - Kerry Spencer , The Gloaming