“The purpose of life is to listen–to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.”

-Fred Rogers

“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.” -Dalai Lama XIV

“The rules of love are simple: Everybody. Always.” -Bob Goff

“Love can flow toward you in every moment…you might be experiencing this flow of love when you find yourself smiling at things for no apparent reason.” —Fr Richard Rohr

I want to choose to love the world as it is, just as I know I am loved as I am—Justin McRoberts

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

–Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“Be joyful though you’ve considered all the facts.” –Wendell Berry

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
-Nelson Mandela

“Like a pencil that draws one line at a time, 
You are free to draw forth one breath…
And it does not have to be perfect in order to be a small, yet important step”
-Morgan Harper Nichols

“Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely”

— Cole Arthur Riley

“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.”