"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
- Eudora Welty
Balance
"Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination."
- Eudora Welty
Creativity
"Toda experiencia es un enriquecimiento en lugar de un empobrecimiento."
- Eudora Welty
Growth
"Only today, he said, today, in October sun, it’s all gold—sky and tree and water. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold."
- Eudora Welty
Change
"The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again."
- Eudora Welty
Philosophy
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage