We selected the superhero theme for our new website, featuring children in the photography, because children demonstrate the ability to dream without constraints and to imagine without boundaries. Ask a child “what do you want to be when you grow up” and they will give the most amazing answers.

Somehow as we grow older we lose this ability. Many of us have a “dream of freedom” which we keep locked away deep inside us. If we do not nurture that dream and give it a voice it too often becomes our “secret sorrow”.

At Fortitude we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to spend some time to give a voice to those things that are important to them. More often than not we find that the constraints and boundaries are self-imposed. When we dare to dream we take the first step on the journey that will take us to where we want to be.

So we use these images to remind us that we are all capable of taking the hero’s journey. All we need is the fortitude to give an honest answer to the question “what do you want to do with your life?”. Below are a series of quotes, which we hope will inspire you to step out of your comfort zone and turn your dreams into a reality. Go on. Start the journey today.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau

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

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious  triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray  twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,  it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Seneca

“All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what  distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about  worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about… We do  not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of  our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time  and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do  choose how we live.”
Joseph Epstein

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What are you favourite inspirational quotes? Email us or Tweet @Fortitude_Neil or @Fortitude_Chris and we’ll publish them to our blog.