A hard quest worth making is to find friends through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Sylphia

The English word "courage" has the same etymological root as the French "couer" which means "heart".

The valves of the heart open and close like a regenerating spiral -- circulating through the ventricles and capillaries and back again; there are no dead ends here, only new possibilities and new beginnings.

Sylphia

note: And yes, this is where L. Frank Baum got the idea for the Lion's heart in the Wizard of OZ.

I am constantly learning to adjust to the conditions I have to endure, yet never faltering to witness the simple affections so commonplace to others.

Sylphia