“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” E.E. Cummings

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.  Ben Okri

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ― Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou