“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion… If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so do a man.” Henry David Thoreau“Your destiny is not tied up to the people who walk away from you.” “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter… a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” Matisse“If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got.”“A whisper can be more compelling than a shout.”“You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good.”