. . . and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  Anais Nin

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.  J. K. Rowling

Faith is indispensable for the perseverance required to break through the spacious ‘reality’ one knows to the as-yet-unknown Reality.   Whitall N. Perry

That which caused the many failures I had in learning the bicycle had caused me failures in life; namely, a certain fearful looking for judgment; a too vivid realization of the uncertainty of everything about me; an underlying doubt – at once, however (and this is all that saved me), matched and overcome by the determination not to give in to it.  Frances Willard

It is not really about the bike at all – it’s about cultivating a sense of independence and freedom.  It’s a feeling of, literally, going places in life.  It’s about getting up after you fall, doing things that scare you, and always finding a new ride.  Frances Willard

That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it, knows . . . something about himself and human life that no school on earth – indeed, no church – can teach.  He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable.  This is because, in order to save his life, he is forced to look beneath appearances, to take nothing for granted, to hear the meaning behind the words.  James Baldwin