Author Archives: TA Loeffler

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? ― Garth Nix

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ― Gloria Steinem

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is not a solo act. It’s a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife. –Tim Gunn

Anyone who has lost track of time…knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. –Tim Berners-Lee

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fibre called courage. -George Patton

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. ― Seán O’Casey

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ― Thomas A. Edison

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. … Continue reading →

Don’t make it harder than it is. – Rob Shaul

Celebrate what you want to see more of. –Tom Peters

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that … Continue reading →

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. ― Lauren Oliver

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ― Maya Angelou

The more boundless your vision, the more real you are. ― Deepak Chopra

Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end…because in the end, it shows you a whole new world. ― Manoj Arora

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. ― Lou Holtz

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. ― Helen Keller

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ― A.A. Milne

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be. ― Sarah Dessen

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. ― … Continue reading →

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. ― Maya Angelou

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight. ― Shannon L. Alder

It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark. ― Anthony Liccione

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. -William Arthur Ward

Confidence comes from committing yourself to do the preparation, talking to yourself in positive ways about what you have done and what you can do, drawing lessons from your experiences and acting on them, and remaining positive with yourself through … Continue reading →

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ― Thomas Jefferson

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path … Continue reading →

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ― David Levithan

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. ― Anaïs Nin

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. ― Roald Dahl

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henryford132651.html#E2WBRTX8A03zqrI6.99