Creative Courage

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones’ courage.
–Anaïs Nin

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. 
–André Gide

Every artist was first an amateur.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that God is in me
as the sun is in the color
and fragrance of a flower–
the light in the darkness,
the Voice in my Silence.
–Helen Keller