“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

—Richard Rohr

“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, and you’ll start believing in it.”

— Jesse Owens

“In a real sense, all life is interrelated. All people are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” 

—Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”

— John Lennon

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

—Leonard Cohen

“Every time you spend money you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”

—Anna Lappe

“We do not become wise by remembering what we already know; we become wise by allowing ourselves to be led.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.”

— E.O. Wilson

“Bless the ones who show up—awkwardly, imperfectly, beautifully. Their presence is a small miracle.”

— Kate Bowler

“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

—W.S. Merwin

“I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”

—Ginni Rometty

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”― T.S. Eliot

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.” 

—Thomas Merton 

“If busyness can become a kind of violence, Sabbath time—effortless, nourishing rest—can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful.”

–Wayne Muller

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

― Desmond Tutu