On art...

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.   - Pablo Picasso

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about...Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it before the beginning of the universe.  - Rumi

 

On adaptation..

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.  - Kazuko Okakura

 

On courage...

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. - Oscar Wilde

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  - Mark Twain

 

On wonder...

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?  - Marcel Marceau

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you. - Bjorn Borg

 

On teaching... 

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.  - Mark Van Doren 

 

On adventure... 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only death you die is the death you die every day by not living. Dream big and dare to fail.  - Norman Vaughan

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.  - Henry David Thoreau

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.  - Braveheart

 

On understanding...

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.  - Maya Angelou

A closed mind is a dying mind.  - Edna Ferber

 

On connection...

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.  - Chief Seattle

 

 

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