The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away. – Leland Val Van de Wall

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau, 1854

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. – Susan M. Watkins