“We can not discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of our own shore.”

André Gide

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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

John Lennon

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“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”

George Washington Carver

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“There is always music playing amongst the trees in the forest, but our heart must be quiet enough to hear it.”

Minnie Aumonier

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“The best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.”

Mark Nepo

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“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

Mark Twain

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“People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand.”

David Whyte

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“The world is already split open, and it is in our destiny to heal it, each in our own way, each in our own time, with the gifts that are ours.”

Terry Tempest Williams

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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

 

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“Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we’re all looking for the key.”

Alan Bennett

 

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“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

Goethe

 

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”

Cheryl Strayed

 

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“Without a heart equal to truth, we are lost.”

Mark Nepo

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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

William James

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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

Goethe

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“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melody Beattie

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“Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.”

Germany Kent

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“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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“When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And when we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.”

Terry Tempest Williams

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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

George Bernard Shaw

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“Fear seeks noisy company and pandemonium to scare away the demons.”

C.G. Jung

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“Every last one of us can do better than give up.”

Cheryl Strayed

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“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

Frank Outlaw

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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin

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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.”

Buddha

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“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you.”

Lillian Hellman

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“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”

Cheryl Strayed

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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw

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“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”

Anna Quindlen

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“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

Virginia Woolf

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Albert Einstein

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“It is not the lips of a prince that will save us, but our own lips speaking.”

Terry Tempest Williams

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“For me, it is often the experience of light, or music, or the authentic stories of others that trips me out of myself.”

Mark Nepo

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“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. The only way out of a hole is to climb out.”

Cheryl Strayed

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“The history of addictions is the story of how humans fall darkly into what they hope

will make them whole.”

Mark Nepo

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

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“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. “

Victor Hugo

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“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

Mary Oliver

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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. “

Walt Whitman

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“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

Wendell Berry

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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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“The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”

Galileo Galilei

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“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a songbird will come.”

Chinese proverb

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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”

Jimmy Carter

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“Nature has been for me, as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”

Lorraine Anderson

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“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”

John Ruskin

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“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well.”

Peter Ustinov

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“Take care of the means and the end will take care of itself.”

Mahatma Ghandi

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“The simple realization that there are other points of view is the beginning of wisdom.”

Charles M. Campbell

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“If you think you’re too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.”

Bette Reese

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“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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“Nature does nothing uselessly. “

Aristotle

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“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.”

Gifford Pinchot

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“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.”

Baba Dioum

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“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from

our children.”

Ancient Indian Proverb

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“To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?”

Katharine Graham

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Ghandi

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“Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.”

Thomas Blount

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“He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”

Tyron Edwards

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“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.”

Lao Tzu

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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. “

Walt Whitman

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“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

William Shakespeare

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“I have always had a feeling for mud.”

Frederic Remington

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“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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“The only person you are destined to become is the preson you decide to be.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

Oscar Wilde

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"Breath in the good shit, breathe out the bullshit"

Anonymous

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