“All good things are wild and free.”

—	Henry David Thoreau

MY OWN PERSONAL COMMANDMENTS :

• Be Natalie.
• Let go.
• Act the way I want to feel.
• Do now, wait later.
• Breathe.
• Practice patience.
• Take courage.
• Take risks.
• Love.
• Be in the present tense.

"Silence doesn’t mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you’re truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"I tell her how isolated I feel and how lonely I am and hungry and tired and she says ‘oh’."

- James Simon Kunen

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

—	Mark Twain

“…there can be a place 
so cold any movement saves you.”

—	Naomi Shihab Nye, "Snow"

“I always pray, ‘God, you already know the answer. Help me to live into the answer, and give me strength to bear the uncertainty.”

“God, show me this person not as I see them but as you see them. Help me to be for them what I am called by you to be. Remove from me my fears and my selfish desires, and show me how to love them as you love them.”

“God will rarely say to us ‘stand still’, ‘be still’, or ‘sit still’ unless He is going to do something.”