Who am I? How do I define who I am?

What factors impact my personal growth? How do relationships impact my life?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

- Anonymous

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

- Raymond Lindquist

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

- Publilius Syrus

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of

enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

- Mark Twain

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

- Napoleon Hill

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again

and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to

improve the world.

- Anne Frank

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

Courage doesn't always roar.Sometimes courage

is the quiet voiceat the end of the day saying,"I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

- Thomas Edison

Every wall is a door.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning,some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

- William Throsby Bridges

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,

so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

- Joseph Campbell

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao Tzu

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a

superstition. It does not exist in nature.

- Helen Keller

What we call the beginning is often the end. 

And to make an end is to make a beginning. 

The end is where we start from.

- T. S. Eliot

I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.

~the character Bella in Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,

of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps

the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

- Theodore H. White

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed.

Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific way, then failing becomes impossible.

- Wayne Dyer

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

- William James