“It’s impossible to live without failing at something — unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case you have failed by default. – J.K. Rowling

“You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of its wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.” – Rumi

“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” – Neil Gaiman

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

“Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.” – Tony Kushner

“What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.” – Elizabeth Lessser

“It is no way to live, to wait to love.” – Dave Eggers

“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.” – Anna Quindlen

“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you’re generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.” – Winston Churchhill

“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.” – Albert Einstein