“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other… Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.”

— Annie Dillard

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality”.

— John Lennon

Quote: After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

— Philip Pullman

“Living means learning to hold the astonishingly beautiful and unbearably hard things in the same palm.” 

– Sulseika Jaouad

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

– Dale Carnegie

“Enchantment arises on the threshold between human activity and nature's presence.”

– Thomas Moore

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.”

– Rumi

“No matter how difficult, life is beautiful. No matter how beautiful, life is difficult. This is the great paradox that opens the heart and brings compassion.”

– Julia Cameron

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough”

—Meister Eckhart

Resurrection comes with the buzz of potentiality and promise; never again “it is what it is.” Instead (and forever),

“It might be.”

“It can be.”

“Let us work to make it so.”

“All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors—in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.”

— Fred Rogers

“When we feel overwhelmed by the darkness in the world—the violence, injustice, poverty, oppression, abuse—give us hope not to be overcome.”

— Rev. Sandra Maria Van Opstal

“There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.”

― Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark

“You are light, you are principle

When you love, invincible

Our shared light, indivisible

When we love, we're invincible”

Invincible —Eddie Vedder

“I do not understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us”

— Anne Lamott

“If Light Is In Your Heart

You Will Find Your Way Home.”

― Rumi

“You know what the happiest animal in the world is? It's a goldfish. It's got a 10 second memory.”

— Ted Lasso

“One tiny idea at a time, one small heart at a time, through and for God, I choose light.”

— Laura Strong

“If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.”

— Rumi

“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

– Brene Brown