“If the only prayer we say is "thank you,” that is enough.”

~ Meister Eckhart

Praying with Grandpa - Henry Ossawa Tanner (American painter, 1859-1937)

“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”

~ Evan Esar,    Art - Peace - Diane Leonard

 Opening to whatever is present can be a heartbreaking business. But let your heart break, for your breaking heart only reveals a core of love unbroken. 

Gangaji

 Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditioned truth. 

Adyashanti

There is no man more complete than ​he who ​has ​travelled a lot​, who has ​changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

 — Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer

“If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree.”—   Sherihan Gamal

“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”—   Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.”—   E.F.L. Wood

“ To me, success isn’t outscoring someone, it’s the peace of mind that comes from self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best. That’s something each individual must determine for himself. ”

—     Steve Andreas

“ Don’t listen to yourself; listen to the advice that you give others. ”—    Michael Lottner

“Remember that when you’re young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people.”

- Josephine de La Baume

“You can’t just carry everyone else’s hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.”

David Kirk

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it’s true. But he may also fly.

- Lauren Oliver 

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

- Anna Quindlen

“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”

— Leila Sales

Don’t mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett

Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.

Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

- Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao