“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

“Apologies aren’t meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future”

— Fred Rogers

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
- Winnie the Pooh

“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”
- Fred Rogers

“Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse. If you’re comfortable while you’re doing it, you’re probably doing it wrong.” – Ted Lasso

"What you focus on will grow."
- Unknown

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller