Melissa Bauman

“There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You’re always ripe and ready to be taken.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving—we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

“Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
― Kahlil Gibran