Every storm runs out of rain. - Maya Angelou

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir

Open and alert, you respond sensitively to the world around you, and it causes you a great deal of pain and tremendous trepidation. But, of course, these are the natural byproducts of a closely examined life. - Carrie Mae Weems

Joy... follows rightly confronted despair. Joy is the experience of possibility, the consciousness of one's freedom as one confronts one's destiny.. after despair, the one thing left is possibility. - Rollo May