"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." –Leonard Cohen

“Sweet April showers, do spring May flowers.”

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move.
Move the way love makes you move.”

–Rumi

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake..."

-Mrs. March, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn’t let someone else be the person to find it for you.” –Justine Skye

“I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.” –Joyce Kilmer

“We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.”

–Patricia Churchland

“Hope and Fear sit on a see-saw and neither one knows what will happen next.” —Kat Lehman

“Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.” – Lisa M. Hayes

“In honor of myself, I will discard the expectations that I should be different, that I should let it go before I’m ready, that I should move on to something new. To honor you, I will love you as you were, as you are, even if that is the same as last month, last year, yesterday. I honor the particularity of moving to your own rhythm and finding your own pace. May we have the courage to begin again, every day, to take as long as we need with the things that deserve more attention, and listen to the ancient wisdom of our bodies that sit outside of time.” -Hillary McBride

“To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”

–MLK, Letter From Birmingham Jail

“The reality is that ambition is helpful, up to a point. Then it is a combination of patience and ambition which will truly help you succeed.” - Scott Miker

“Nothing is yet in its true form.”

― C.S. Lewis

“We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.”

-Clement of Alexandria

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

–Mother Teresa

“Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.”

–Terry Tempest Williams

“We need much less than we think we need.”

–Maya Angelou

“Happiness has a chance to grow when we see dandelions as flowers.”

–Kat Lehman