 | Do what is needed with full concentration: Find the spare tire, turn off the water valve, call your therapist. Be here now, and you'll realize there's nowhere else you ever need to be.—Martha Beck |  |
| The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.—Susan Orlean | |
| When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.—Iyanla Vanzant | |
| Open your heart and you will be amazed at the transformations taking place all around you.—Rev. Ed Bacon | |
| No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.—Haruki Murakami | |
| The most satisfying project you will ever undertake—and a mark of a complete human being—is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you...—Deepak Chopra | |
| I haven’t yet met anyone who successfully made their body over without finding that their lives changed in ways--wonderful ways--that they had never imagined.—Bob Greene | |
| ...Transformation happens when you dare to be awakened to greater heights. When you stay open no matter what. Letting each experience, especially the tough ones, strengthen you and add depth and wisdom.—Oprah | |
| Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.—Etty Hillesum | |
| Coastal Scene With Cliffs, by John Constable, Yale Center for British Art |
"I started taking responsibility ... and started making the changes and decisions to move positively forward in my life. I didn't row across my first ocean until I was 47. I have six Guinness World Records for rowing oceans. I've circumnavigated Great Britain ... I've been places on this planet that no human being has ever been before. A thousand miles from land in any direction ... it's been a pretty amazing life."
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