Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott-Maxwell
The Measure of My Days

“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.”

- Thomas Fuller

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Paul Boese –

The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.

St. Irenaeus

“Love and time; those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”

- Gary Jennings

I am, therefore I thank.

Cindy Lubar Bishop

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

- Marcus Antonius –

Meditation is running into reality. It does not insulate you from the pain of life. It allows you to delve so deeply into life and all its aspects that you pierce the pain barrier and go beyond suffering.

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"

“I try not to live up to expectation... I just do what I think I can do.”

- Danica Patrick

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

- Ani DiFranco -

Gossip kills three: the speaker, the spoken of, and the listener.

- Rabbi Samuel b. Nahman, Numbers Rabbah

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

- Joseph Campbell –

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Quoted in Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese, by Kathryn and Ross Petras

Poverty, the cruelest of demons, deprives a man Of every joy in this life as well as the next.

- Tirukkural 1042

First of all, do not predefine understanding, and do not make a principle of non-understanding.

- Ying-an

“It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

- Wayne Dyer

As rain penetrates an improperly shingled roof, so passion overwhelms a confused mind.

- Buddha

“Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.”

- Jean Cocteau

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

- Swedish proverb -

You have no caste. No duties bind you. Formless and free, Beyond the reach of the senses, The witness of all things. So be happy!

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:5

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

- Daniel L. Reardon

“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”

- Daniel L. Reardon

Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke -