“someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. they can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. and whatever their reasons you must leave. because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. you never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. there is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. and there is the love that will be ready.”

“May you always do what you are afraid to do.”

“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”

— Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

there are only two mistakes one can make on the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.”

— Buddha

there are only two mistakes one can make on the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.”

— Buddha

the secret of joy is mastery of pain
- anais

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

—

Anaïs Nin

People matter.
Regardless of political, economic or geographic differences. 
People matter. 
Irrespective of ethnicity, religion or education.
People matter. 
No matter their gender, age or relational preference. 
People matter. 
Even with a physical, mental or social disability.
People…

"For us, there is only trying. The rest is not our business."

- T. S. Eliot

We are not paid for our time and effort. We are paid to produce something, and, occasionally, it’s good to remember what it is."

- Robert Braut

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God, and He didn't come through, you only trusted God to meet your agenda

- Timothy Keller

The function of mind is response. The function of life is adaptation; Forests are adaptations of seeds, and seeds of dust

— Lao Tzu

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work

- Chuck Close 

Those who stay married live four years long than those who don’t.”

— John M. Gottman,

Sometimes, it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child’s smile, a cup of excellent coffee.”

— Jonathan Carroll

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

― Anthony de Mello

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail

- Lech Walesa

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably

- Anita Ekberg

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”

— John Cage

Failure is a path, not a destination.”

— Robert Logan

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself; your own thinking coming back to you

— Byron Katie

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to."

- Danny Wallace, Yes Man 

A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it.
Having admitted it, he corrects it.
He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers.
He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts."

- Lao Tzu 

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

— Krishnamurti 

Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.

- Anthony Douglas

here is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.'

- Chogyam Trungpa, 

We don’t worship God, or Buddha, or Krishna. We worship our story about them. We worship our beliefs.”

— Byron Katie

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both."

- Criss Jami

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren and to do GOOD is my religion."

- Thomas Paine

You don't have a soul, You are a soul, you have a body.
- CS Lewis

A tiny bud of a smile on your lips nourishes awareness and calms you. It returns you to the peace you had lost. A smile is the most basic kind of peace work."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.”

— The Bhagavad Gita