“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.  . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing.  . . .” 
- Henry Miller

"The gift of truth excels all other gifts." - Buddha

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" - Anais Nin