New action...

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
- Richard L. Evans

Nature of Gift

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. 

-Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

Small wins...

"What I like about small wins is they can cascade. One can lead right into another."

- Dan Pink

alter the past?

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Samuel Butler

...silent place

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. 

-Henry van Dyke, poet (10 Nov 1852-1933)