Barbara A

“Reach forward to what lies ahead.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank canvas.”
― Jason Soroski

“The kind of new beginnings that transform our lives are less about what we do in our lives, and more about what we deliver into the life of another.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I had never been any good at reading out loud at school. I would forever stutter over my consonants—I dreaded k’s in particular. Long words terrified me. What if I pronounced them wrong and everyone laughed at me? But now, sitting up there on the magic unicorn, I began to read, and all my dread and all my terror simply vanished. I heard my voice speaking out strong and loud. It was as if I was up in the mountains alone and singing a song at the top of my voice, for the sheer joy of the sound of it. The words danced like music on the air, and I could feel everyone listening. And I knew they were listening not to me at all, but to the story of The Little Match Girl, because they were just as lost in it as I was.”
― Michael Morpurgo, I Believe in Unicorns