It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. 

 ~Author Unknown


If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. 

 ~Vincent Van Gogh

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. 

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross