“The Best Way Out Is Always Through.”~ Robert Frost & Other Inspiration

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~John Muir

“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”
~Winston Churchill

“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?” ~George Eliot

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” ~Epictetus

“The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason,
— over every idea.”
~Latin Proverb

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
~James Russel Lowell

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” ~Henry David Thoreau

“If you would create something, you must be something.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” ~Helen Keller

“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” ~Alice Meynell

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” ~Arthur C. Clarke

“Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.”
~Henry Ward Beecher

“For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.” ~Matthew Prior

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
~Mary Shelley

“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”
~Johann Gottfried Von Herder

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”
~St. Clement of Alexandra

“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
~Louisa May Alcott

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
~Albert Einstein

“Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.” ~Orison Swett Marden

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”  ~Christopher Reeve

“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” 

~Vincent McNabb

“When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

“Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.”  ~Emily Dickinson

(The mountains in early summer)

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.” 

~Anne Lamott

“The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life.”  ~Ana Jacob

“Storms make oaks take roots.” ~
Proverb

“Triumphant arch, that fill’st the sky when storms prepare to part.” ~ Thomas Campbell

“God’s illumined promise.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

*Royalty free images I purchased~ Rainbow is by daughter Elise, taken on our farm