“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it.”
— Gandhi
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
- Kabir
“We do one thing after another. That is all.”
"Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."
-Frida Kahlo
"Though our thoughts may run into the past or the future, they cannot escape the present moment."
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can."
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
- Ram Dass
“In our society we make much of love and say little about fear. Fear is the primary force upholding systems of domination. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear - against alienation and separation. The choice to love is the choice to connect - to find ourselves in the other.”
“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
-Mary Renault
“It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."
-Bill Bryson
“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh"
-Doris Lessing
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou
