“Home is where one starts from.”—T.S. Eliot

“Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.”—Terri Guillemets

“Out beyond idea of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”—Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” —Socrates

“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.” —Will Rogers

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” —Havelock Ellis

“Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.” —Socrates

“Again, again we come and go, changed, changing. Hands join, unjoin in love and fear, grief and joy. The circles turn, each giving into each, into all.” —Wendell Berry

“One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” —Maya Angelou

“The true art of memory is the art of attention.” —Samuel Johnson

“Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other.” —Wai Lan Yue

“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.” —Dorothy Day

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” —Henri Matisse

“Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” —Judith Minty

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“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

“God has no religion.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition.” —James Baldwin

“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. ” —Lord Byron

“From joy springs all creation, By joy it is sustained, Towards joy it proceeds, And unto joy it returns. “—The Upanishads

“All peoples are members of the same body, created from one essence. ” —Saadi

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” —Cornel West

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin

“There are cracks, cracks, in everything — that’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen

“Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.” —African Proverb

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass

“What is to give light must endure burning.”—Viktor Frankl

“Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.”—Rumi

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust

“Without forgiveness there is no future.”—Desmond Tutu

“This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what is scarce.”—Alice Walker

“The winds of grace are always blowing but you have to raise the sail.”—Ramakrishna

“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”—G. K. Chesterton

“Suddenly there is a point when religion becomes laughable. Then you decide that you are nevertheless religious.”—Thomas Merton

“What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!”—The Cowardly Lion

“Tell me who you love and I’ll tell you who you are.”—Louisiana Creole Proverb

“Every intersection in the road of life is the opportunity to make a decision.”—Duke Ellington