“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.” - Joan Didion

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” - Anna Quindlen

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.” - Vincent Van Gogh