1. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
2. Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.
3. For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'
4. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
5. You can't stay in your corn