i wish i could show you, when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being 
Hafiz

To My Grown Up Son by Alice E. Chase

My hands were busy through the day;

I didn’t have much time to play

The little games you asked me to –

I didn’t have much time for you.

I’d wash your clothes, I’d sew and cook;

But when you’d bring your picture book

And asked me please to share your fun,

I’d say: “a little later, son.”

I’d tuck you in all safe at night,

And hear your prayers, turn out the light,

Then tip-toe softly to the door…

I wish I’d stayed a minute more.

For life is short, the years rush past…

A little boy grows up so fast.

No longer is he at your side,

His precious secrets to confide.

The picture books are put away;

There are no longer games to play.

No good-night kiss, no payers to hear –

That all belongs to yesteryear.

My hands, once busy, now are still.

The days are long and hard to fill.

I wish I could go back and do

The little things you asked me to.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert A. Humphrey

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.

Unknown

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we make a change, it’s so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

Jeanette Winterson

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