"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."--Hale, from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1968)

Words to which I return....

The Dream Keeper

Bring me all your dreams,
you dreamers,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies,
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud cloth,
Away from the too rough fingers
Of the world.

--Langston Hughes

"Right now,
I don’t know what Normal is
Anymore.
That’s because Normal has been changing
So much,
So often,
Lately."

 --Mattie JT Stepanek

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all.

 --Emily Dickinson

Be patient.  Sometimes you just have to believe. Sometimes that belief gets you where you want to go, sometimes it carries you a little closer, and then you discover another way. --Lynne Cox, grayson (p. 111)

A thought is energy, and as it is transmitted, it is multiplied.
Thoughts can be either positive, negative, or neutral, and they may travel all the way around the world as energy, affecting the way other people, and perhaps other beings, think. If I thought negatively, then I would put out negative energy, but if I thought positively, I would put out positive energy, expanding the possibilities of what could happen.” --Lynne Cox, grayson (p. 47)

Sometimes it’s the process of doing that makes things clear. If we don’t start, we never know what could have been. Sometimes the answers we find while searching are better or more creative than anything we could ever have imagined before. -- Lynne Cox, grayson (p. 56)