Author Archives: TA Loeffler

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of … Continue reading →

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. ― Paulo Coelho

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself. ― Steve Lopez

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. ― Gary Snyder

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ― Tom Stoppard

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ― Maya Angelou

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ― John Keats

One can’t be on the topmost rung of a ladder from before, it takes time to reach it, to climb it, one at a time. We struggle so that in this process of climbing we can learn, so that we … Continue reading →

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ― Mark Twain

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. ― Yogi Berra

We see in order to move; we move in order to see. ― William Gibson

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. ― Czesław Miłosz

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. ― Lauren DeStefano

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. ~Author Unknown

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ― Paulo Coelho

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying. ― Sarah Dessen

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and … Continue reading →

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. ― Elizabeth Berg

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. ― David R. Hawkins

The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together. ― Bryant McGill

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. ― Helen Keller

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. ― Karen E. Quinones Miller

Those who lose dreaming are lost. –Australian Aboriginal Proverb

We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. ― Rick Warren

Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and … Continue reading →

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. ― J.K. Rowling

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ― Maya Angelou

Getting lost is just another way of saying “going exploring.” ― Justina Chen

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them. ― Elizabeth Taylor

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. ― Derrick A. Bell