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.