The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.-Alice Walker     If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.-Peace Pilgrim     Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.-Paul P. Harris     Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.-Margaret Thatcher     Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.-William Gaddis     Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. – Robert A. Heinlein     Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what…

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” ― Pope John Paul II     “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something…

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.-Carl Sandburg     If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.-David Carradine     The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.-Jean Cocteau     Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.-Leonard Cohen     Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.-Rita Dove     A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valery     Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.-Robert Frost     Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never…