“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.”

— Carl Jung

"Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places when you look at it right."

-Robert Hunter

"You are perfect exactly as you are, AND…there's plenty of room for improvement!"

— Shunryu Suzuki

"An awake heart is like a sky that pours light."

-Hafiz

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

— Chinese Proverb

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

— Abraham Lincoln

"We are not born in other lifetimes, but a thousand times in our own."

— Sam Meeking

"Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives—friendship with our own hearts."

— Anne Lamott

"Contempt is the sulfuric acid of love."

-John Gottman

"There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light."

-Rumi

"Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

-Rumi

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a human heart can hold."

-Zelda Fitzgerald

"The art of love…is largely the art of persistence."

-Ellis

"Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore."

-Cheryl Strayed

"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach."

~Havelock Ellis

"Tell me,
What do you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious
Life?"

-Mary Oliver

"Nothing determines more who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore."

-Sandor McNab

"You don't have to keep being the thing you have become.
It's never too late."

-Rachel Joyce

"We're all just walking each other home."

-Ram Daas

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse…"

. ~Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!", Leaves of Grass

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

~Flora Whittemore

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

-Joseph Campbell

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

-Anais Nin

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

-Anais Nin

"I
am
not
done
learning."

-Michaelangelo

"I feel there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

-Van Gogh

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

-Leo Buscaglia

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

-Robert Frost

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

-Maya Angelou

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

-Epicetus

"Because you are alive,
everything is possible."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry."

-Lyman Abbott

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."

-Betty Smith

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"If you can learn to be patient in a moment of anger, you will escape 100 days of sorrow."

-Chinese Proverb

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."

-Wernher von Braun

"May you live all the days of your life."

Jonathan Swift

"Stories are useful, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."

-G.K. Chesterton

"Every person must choose how much truth he can stand."
-Irvin Yalom

"Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude."
-Viktor Frankl

"Tear off the mask.
Your face is glorious."
-Rumi

"To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another."

-Irvin Yalom