1051 – “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

– Elizabeth Appell, under the nickname Lassie Benton [Widely Misattributed to Anaïs Nin , See Source Notes for details]

660 – “When medieval writers spoke of natural law as being discoverable by reason, they meant that the best human reasoning could discover it, and not, of course, that the results to which any and every individual’s reasoning led him was natural law.”

–J L Brierly

606 – “When I die, grow gardens from my heart. I belong to the roses.”

–Kujtime Bracic

380 – “One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself.”

–Nelson Mandela

338 – “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”

–Cynthia Occelli

281 – “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.”

–anonymous

267 – “On most nights, I am torn between missing who I was and desiring to know who I would be.”

–anonymous

247 – “I stopped telling myself that I’m lost. I’m not. I’m on a road with no destination, I’m just driving with hope that I’ll find a place I like and stay there. I’m not lost, I’m on my way.”

–anonymous

229 – “When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person that walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.”

–Haruki Murakami

219 – “The past can hurt. But, from the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.”

–Rafiki (Voiced by Robert Guillaume) in Disney’s The Lion King (1994)