"Healing takes time, and—so does—not healing.

Chose how you spend your time wisely.” 

- Lalah Delia

“One of the greatest advantages of being an empath is that experiencing a spiritual awakening is virtually inevitable. In other words, spiritually awakening seems to be written into our DNA.” 

- Aletheia Luna

"Pay no attention to the critics. There's never been statue erected in honor of a critic."
-Jean Sibelius

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” 

~Ernest Hemingway

"My life is my message." 

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” 

~Rumi

"Some of us think that holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” 

~Hermann Hesse

"Happiness is a skill."

- Zachariah Bourne

"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world."

~ Buddha

"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing." 

- Seneca

“We are not responsible for what our eyes are seeing. We are responsible for how we perceive what we are seeing.” 

~ Gabrielle Bernstein

"Your minds, your imagination, they are everything.  Look how beautiful.  Yes, you.  You deserve to sit at the table.  The radiance falls on all of us.  We're nothing without all of us."

- Lidia Yuknavitch

“How much pain has cost us the evils that have never happened.” 

~Thomas Jefferson

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

"Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting."

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- James M. Barrie

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” 

- Thomas Campbell

"When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger. But we tend to forget … When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately.” 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Always engage in the quest for life’s meaning, which is inner peace.” 

~Longchenpa

"I'm not the story you made of me."

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

SUPERFLUITY

"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary."

- La Rochefoucauld

“What I learned from that intensely educational period of my life is that one kind of misfit is the person who suffers abuse or trauma and doesn't transcend it in the socially hoped-for way. We take a wrong turn or go deeper down. That's often looked at like a failure, but sometimes I wonder. I've learned things by taking the wrong turn or going down deeper that I could not have learned any other way.” 

― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Misfit's Manifesto

“Note to self:  Beating yourself up for your flaws and mistakes won’t make you perfect, and you don’t have to be. Learn, forgive yourself, and remember: We all struggle; it’s just part of being human.” 

~Lori Deschene

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.” 


― David Bohm, physicist

"And then one day, for no particular reason..... we became offended by everything."  

-- Forrest Gump