"We are lived by the powers we pretend to understand." (W.H. Auden). "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself." (Robert Frost) "Dismiss whatever insults your own soul." (Walt Whitman) "Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." (Rilke) "The wound is the place that the Light enters you" (Rumi)