“Anyone can be cool, but awesome takes practice.”

“Anybody can be cool...but Awesome takes practice.”

“You look beautiful.”“Anyone can appear beautiful in the shadows.”

“To take from life what you can, while you can.”

“The only way to follow your path is to take the lead.”

“I think people are very brave and often are a lot more frightened than they're allowed to admit. Life is much harder to live for most people than we want to admit. And so many things take a summoning up of courage. It makes one's own life a little bit easier when you can acknowledge that.-Ursula LeGuin, interviewed by”

“when the cheese belongs to the mitten take the horns off the roller coaster”