• Loss is a fact of life. Impermanence is everywhere we look. We are all going to suffer our losses. How we deal with these losses is what makes all the difference. For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny, but how we relate to what happens. ~Lama Surya Das, “Practicing With Loss”
• Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ~Lao Tzu
• Dont be surprised how quickly the Universe moves once you’ve decided.
• “We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inh...

• As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can. ~John Muir
• I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904
• It’s more. More than just this. More than our bodies. More than we can see, and feel, and touch. It’s more. It’s everything. ~wordsbyt
• If you don’t go after what you want,

you’ll never have it. If you don’t as...

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• No matter how often I think I can’t stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don’t fall, I don’t foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It’s the same for all of us. You can’t get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does. ~Janice Galloway
• The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either. ~Ricky Gervais
• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ~Carl Rogers
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa
• You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream ...

• Beware of destination addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.
• Once a soul chooses to awaken and evolve, there can be no going back to an outgrown state of consciousness. A person cannot go back asleep once he begins to awaken to deeper truths. The only way through is forward.
• We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we still will be no less afraid… We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence...

• “Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.” ~Sara Raasch Snow Like Ashes
• “You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.” ~Sophia Amoruso
• “Dignity /ˈdignitē/ noun

The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache.

The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.

The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.

The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter. The momen...

• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists. ~Derrick Jensen, from A Language Older Than Words
• for your whole life you’ll be trying to Become & that’s alright!
• You are incapable of giving up. It’s the part of you that is not anchored to the floor. The part of you that is really you. The part of you that lasts forever. The part of you that never burns. ~Carole Maso, The Art Lover
• “What I had once mistaken for death was, instead, a door.” ~Rachel McKibbens, from “the second time,” published in Vinyl
• “I offer you that kernel of myself that...

• The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
• Your individuality is the only thing that works. embrace it, and have fun with it.
• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela
• "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it." Jonathan Haidt
• I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. ~David Bowie
• Good things come to those who work hard, while others are whining.
• Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow. ~Ca...

• * Don’t overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence. ― Amit Kalantri
• “Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.” — Yasmin Mogahed
• “Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” ~evwriting
• “Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light” ~Turkish Proverb
• “Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just … start.” ~Ijeoma Umebinyuo
• “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, …” ~Paulo Coelho
• “She was unstoppable. Not because she d...