permeating

‘Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone’s interest.’

- Paul J. Meyer

refuge

‘Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.’

- Buddha

holds

‘The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?’

- Kahlil Gibran

even

‘Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.’

- Mark Twain

me

‘Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.’

- Isak Dinesen

to

‘Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.’

- George Bernard Shaw

clings

‘Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.’

- Thomas Carlyle

youth

‘I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.’

- Albert Einstein

smoke

‘We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.’

- Tom Stoppard

but

‘Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.’

- Albert Einstein