I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

-Anna Freud

The mind is everything. What you think you become.  

–Buddha

“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” 

- Unknown

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day.  This is a power you can cultivate.  If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind.  That's the only thing you should be trying to control."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Prey, Love

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

- Vincent van Gogh

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. 

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. 

Alice Walker

"True Beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are.  True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principals, your moral compass."

Ellen DeGeneres

Copyright Katherine Erickson 2015

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou





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