"and you can quote me"

"Life is a great school for the development of character, and all, through strife and struggle, vice and virtue, success and failure, a...

"In a relationship, we can pretend to be the same, to think the same, to feel the same, to dream the same, but there is no way that can...

"Only what is true will survive, and that includes the concepts you have about yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new th...

"The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever...

"I recommend the following course of action for those who are just beginning their careers, or for those like me, who may be reconfigur...

"To my mind, the world would be a much pleasanter and more civilized place to live in, if everyone resolved to pursue whatever is close...

"Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts. Being born and growing up are such common experiences that people seldom...

"Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure." ~Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

"Do the best you can and never stop." ~ Stephen Wiltshire

"Suspending criticism is killing the dragon Thou Shalt. Kill him." ~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." ~Mother Teresa

"I suggest everyone stop having day jobs. Just have as many night jobs as necessary to pay for your day." ~Jared Frank, Work Maga...

"I often wonder about the relationship between pain and creating.  In the bible it says that God created the world out of darkness and ...

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ~André Gide

"You weren't created just to get your heart broken so God could laugh about it with his friends at a cloud bar." ~Théo Burkhar...

"A human being is part of a whole called by us, the Universe." ~Albert Einstein (thanks Jamie)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~Robert Frost (thanks Sara)

"woman next to me, 70 maybe. reading a book called Carnal Innocence. peeped some excerpts. holy cow." ~DCM, to me, via text, regar...

"How we got to be who we are and what we are today is of supreme unimportance compared with coming together to get out of the mess we h...

"You were born with an energy and passion for doing what you believe in. In fact, you've been thinking big and reaching high and do...

"When we are together it occurs to me how glorious life can (and is intended to) be. So much is possible. The things that lie ahead ar...

"A tale is told of a teacher and his disciples watching a tightrope walker who was so absorbed in what he was doing that they asked the...

"Words cannot describe what I have to look forward to being in your life." ~Joseph Kalish, love ever after  (thanks Mel)

"If we want to be creative, we must learn to care less about how we will look in the eyes of others than what we feel about what we are...

"you were like.. a firework show in our living room pow pow pow dazzling / loud / not sure what to think about a firework show in your ...

"Many people believe that the best way to serve God is exemplified by the followers of traditional religion, that is those who affirm t...

"Meeting as two people who are soulfully dedicated to sharing their real selves, each releasing divine sparks, creates the intimacy and...

"You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way--it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am b...

"Only by setting aside our idealized image of who we imagine we should be, can we allow the emergence of that awkward combination of st...