“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

—Dorothy Day

“Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: ‘We can move mountains.’”

—Jimmy Carter

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

— Mary Pickford

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

― Mother Theresa

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

— Anne Lamott

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

– Mary Oliver

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

—Shunryu Suzuki

"There is no such thing as ‘away.’ When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere."

—Annie Leonard

"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."

—May Sarton

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

—Henri Matisse

“We hope that many people feel how the love received from others can become the power that allows them to love themselves.”

—BTS

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”

—Gertrude Jekyll

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

―Barack Obama

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”

―L.M. Montgomery

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” 

—Aesop

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." 

—Helen Keller

"Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something."

—Henri Nouwen

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

―Jimmy Carter

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." 

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let your fear of regret be stronger than your fear of failure.”

―Ruth Soukup