• 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 ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. ~Nora Roberts

• You’re allowed to scream, you’re allowed to cry, but do not give up.
• I marvel at the trees, how their leaves change colors and fall off. I realize the biggest lesson I must learn from autumn is how to gracefully let go.
• Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better. ~Orny Adams
• Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
• “The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.” ~Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior
• It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you. ~Leon Brown
• It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. ~Suzanne Collins
• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
• 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.
• The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ~Bob Moawad
• Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. ~Vincent Van Gogh
• At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. ~Frida Kahlo
• Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret ~Jim Rohn
• This Autumn, let something die.

A worry, a relationship, a project that has run its course. Let go of anxiety over the future. Let go of guilt.

Let go of other people’s dreams for you. Let go of the fear that happiness or success or love or joyousness somehow isn’t for you.

Let go of feeling unwanted. Go outside, can you feel how deeply your presence is craved here?

Let go of the small and burdensome things. Gifts never opened. Keys without a lock. Broken earrings, old love letters, the ephemera on your fridge.

As David Whyte writes, “Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” This Autumn, let go of all the clothes you have outgrown.

Let go of comparison.

Let go of doubt.

Let go of the feeling that you are somehow not good enough.

Because every imperfect apple that lays soft in your hands, and every ray of low Autumn sunlight that warms you through woolens will tell you a different story, a much truer story. The story that you are more, much more, than enough. That you bless this world simply by being alive.

• Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. ~J.K. Rowling
• If you hide from all the storms how will you grow?
• Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love. ~Emma Watson
• “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder. To search for the truth.” ~Albert Einstein
• when margaret atwood said “the desire to be loved is the last illusion. give it up and you will be free”
• Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. ~Jonathan Safran Foer
• Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. ~George Addair
• Mean everything. Mean the things you feel. Mean the things you say. Mean your subtleties. Mean your paradoxes. Mean your actions. Mean what you don’t mean. Mean your promises to yourself and your promises to others. Mean the true basis of your life. Be freely and audaciously deliberate.
• You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ~William Faulkner
• ‪A lot of people are experiencing massive heart chakra openings. Grief and sadness has been showing up to cleanse and create more space for energetic expansion. To hold more love, we must first make room by removing the old pain. Crying is a powerful form of release.‬
• He drags the weight of his passion as if nothing were over, ~Mark Strand, from “The Late Hour,” The Late Hour (Atheneum Books, 1978)

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• I look at myself but I’m missing. I know myself: it’s not me. ~Fernando Pessoa; from “O cat playing in the street…” (January 1931), in Fernando Pessoa-Himself, translated by Richard Zenith
• “You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.” ~Jerry West
• Fata viam invenient. The Fates will find a way. ~Vergil, Aeneid (X.113)
• Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying…or busy with other assignments.”

~Marcus Aurelius - from …Meditations

• to love—platonically, romantically, unconditionally—is to live. remember this when you want to close your heart to others.
• We haven’t moved an inch, and everything has changed. ~John Ashbery, from “More Pleasant Adventures,“ A Wave (Open Road Media, 2014; first published 1984)
• Good-night, sweet princess. You are still on your own; be stoic; don’t panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing giving of spring. ~Sylvia Plath, from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
• “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.” ~Virginia Woolf
• My life’s a chandelier dropped from an airplane. ~Jeffrey McDaniel, Disasterology
• Give up brooding, thinking, analysing, […] Enjoy the moment—but could one? ~Virginia Woolf, from The Years (Mariner Books, 1969)
• You are going to want to give up. Don’t.
• You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. ~Paul Theroux
• Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. ~Mooji
• You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forwards.
• She was never quite ready. But she was brave. And the universe listens to brave. ~Rebecca Ray
• How words can hold their own magic. How a word can charm, and how a word can kill. This I’ve understood. ~Sandra Cisneros, from Woman Hollering Creek; “Eyes of Zapata,” c. 1991

“Ignore labyrinths that others may construct around you and remember that the shortest distance between two points is your own path.” ~Michael Boiano

• The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. ~Pablo Picasso
• The happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
• “The worst thing that ever happened to you was not the worst thing that ever happened to you. Hating yourself for it was.” ~Andrea Gibson, Hurt the Fly
• Some people think that to be strong is to never feel pain. In reality the strongest people are the ones who feel it, understand it, accept and learn from it.
• Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts so seriously.
• Start over my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want, and courageous enough to chase it.
• “And who are we but metaphors for what we want to be?” ~Richard Jackson, from “Fog Rises from the Leaves,” Broken Horizons
• The fog lifted as I ran; the world brightens with or without us.Recognizing the miracle becomes the miracle. ~Hala Alyan, from “On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna” in The Twenty-Ninth Year
• ‪Be aware of your language. If the words you are speaking do not make you feel good and uplifted, don’t say them.‬
• Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
• ‘You’re going to be happy’ said life ‘but first I’ll make you strong.’
• In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am. !Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnets to Orpheus”
• She took me to imaginary places. ~Ernest Bryll, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, from “The Writing on the Wall and My Heart,”
• “I got lost and got found again and got lost again and got found again,” ~James Wright, from a letter to J.D. McClatchy written c. February 1977
• Two things to remember in life: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.
• Take risks. If you win you will be happy; if you lose you will be wise.
• Good people bring out the good in people.
• “You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you’ll never know.” ~Jerry Spinelli
• ‪To truly heal and live in a peaceful state, you have to do the work yourself. No one else is going to come and save you. Take responsibility for what you are creating everyday. The biggest obstacle to healing is your own resistance to growth and change.‬
• Stop doubting yourself. Work hard and make it happen.
• If you get tired learn to rest, not quit.
• Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.” ~Paulo Coelho
• Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
• To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. ~Roy T. Bennett
• You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously. ~Steve Maraboli,
• Please do what you love, find a way, no excuses.
• Let go of what doesn't make you happy. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. ~Paulo Coelho
• “If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.” ~Paulo Coelho
• Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. ~Cormac McCarthy
• What is suffering behind your anger?
• Become intimate with your fears. listen to them. sit cross legged. give them your undivided attention…offer them comfort. offer them rest. ~Nayyirah Waheed
• People never learn anything by being told. They have to find out for themselves. ~Paulo Coelho
• Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
• Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others - not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.
• Do not be afraid to walk the path that you must go just because you cannot see the end. The path becomes clearer as you continue to go on. ~Tracy Allen
• “I’m making myself. I’ll make myself until I reach the core.” ~Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
• You’re going to make mistakes in life. It’s what you do after the mistakes that counts. ~ Brandi Chastain
• “There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?" ~Yasmin Mogahed
• If you don’t know where it came from, why would you put it in your mouth? ~Meg Cabot, from “Reunion” in Girls Night Out
• Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
• If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great will ever happen to you.
• Everyone is a poet. Poetry is just transforming feelings into words.
• I’ve decided to leave everything out of my hands.
• “We meet no Stranger but Ourself.” ~Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, about 1870
• You’re the one who has to live with your choice,” she says. “Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.
• Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can – as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. And not to simply be what is generally called a “success”
• Be teachable. You’re not always right.
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
• Transformation happens layer by layer. Never all at once.
• Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention ~Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” ~Sylvia Plath
• Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
• When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
• The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
• The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
• Stop trying to figure it all out. Often the answers come to us when we least expect it.
• Today, Forget your past. Forgive yourself. And start again.
• What you see depends on what you have seen.
• Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
• If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward you are always in the same place.
• The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding. ~Neetesh Dixit
• Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. ~Zig Ziglar
• You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
• “To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.” ~kathryn schulz, being wrong: adventures in the margin of error
• Even if you could – and you couldn’t, can’t – there was no going back. It was absurd, naïve, childish, and sentimental. You can’t correct the mistakes of a lifetime. You are your own past. These things happened, you did them, you have to accommodate them inside your skin and go forward. Even if you could – and you couldn’t, can’t – there was no going back. Something like this was running through my mind. ~Niall Williams, “This Is Happiness”