Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.  ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
~Rumi

Our stumbling blocks are stepping stones.

Ruth Montgomery

Strangers Among Us

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

In the end we all want the same thing. We all want peace.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

--St Fancis of Assisi

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. --Grace Hansen