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"Dare to grow, to thrive, to bloom. Even if you are alone in a seeming wilderness. Your beauty and your worthiness are not diminished, but enhanced."
 - - HMB 8/12/20 - caption to a photo she took of a blue wildflower spotted on one of her 15,000 steps/day walks during the 6th month of the COVID-19 pandemic

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
- - Robert Swan, quoted Goethe

First say to yourself what would you be, and then do what you have to do.

- - Epictetus

Whatever you want to do, do it now.  There are only so many tomorrows.
- - Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not.  
- - Dr. Seuss

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
- - Alexis Carrell 

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
- - Henry James

I hear and I forget.  I see and I remember.  I do and I understand.

- - Confucious

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

- - Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973)

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
- - Mike Zimmerman

The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.
- - Chinese proverb

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
- - Unknown

If you don’t like the road you’re on, start paving another one.
-2015 Film, ‘Our Brand Is Crisis.’  Originally said by Dolly Parton, when asked about her 60th birthday

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
-- Mario Andretti, former racing driver

If you don't ruffle some feathers, you can't fly.
- Robin M (Feb 2020)