WonderLand... A Silent Film

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

~Neil deGrasse Tyson~

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

~Maya Angelou~

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself-the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us-that’s where it’s at.”

~Jesse Owens~

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”

~Richard Wright, Black Boy~

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.”

~Maya Angelou~

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

~George Washington Carver~

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

~Langston Hughes~

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.”

~Malcolm X~

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

~Zora Neale Hurston~