play

 

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Ludwig van Beethoven

change

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Richard Buckminister Fuller

truth

 

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Stanley Kubrick

freedom

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin 

truth

 

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

i

 

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin

truth

 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

quiet

 

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.

Amanda Gorman

light

 

There is always light

 If only we are brave enough to see it 

If only we are brave enough to be it.

Amanda Gorman

contradict

 

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle.

Thomm Quackenbush

decent

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

George Orwell

earth

 

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Anonymous

one day

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over. It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean-Paul Sartre

hope

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

step

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Thich Nhat Hanh

when

 

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Salvador Dali

answer

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax.

William S. Burroughs

unbelieved

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.

John Steinbeck

available

I try to be available for life to happen to me.

Bill Murray

Martin Luther King, Jr...

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

searching

 

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Jim Morrison

felt

 

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

John Steinbeck

treasure

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere...in trees, rivers, insects, well, anything...I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

Hayao Miyazaki

earth

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

courage

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

want

 

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

caught

 

We are all caught in the in between of what's real and what's a dream.

Anonymous

kindness

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

Susan Sontag

you

Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you. Your truth is in your roots, but your past is not your anchor. 

Kat Cole

sentient

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

Mary Oliver

flowers

 

The earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear

 

Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

Suzy Kassem

while

While still in the cage of your being, behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

Rumi

you

 

You are the rainbow that adds color to my gray skies.

Avijeet Das

traumas

... traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkness pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.

A. Zavarelli, Crow 

becoming

 

All forms of becoming require spaciousness in one way or another; mental space that allows the mind to expand, emotional space for feeling to flower, and physical space in which to move.

Dana Hutton

path

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. with each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

nature

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

need

We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

Pablo Neruda

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

people

 

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

Joyce Rachelle

life

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

Amit Ray 

hope

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

merry

 

Merry Christmas and to a better 2o21

can

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen R. Covey

you

 

If you don't like the road you're walking start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

providing

You can have every edge and advantage in life by providing a safe ledge for others to see the view.

Richie Norton

genius

 

Genius is finding the invisible like between things.

Butterfly Hunter