“Since we all have a darkness within us, its impossible to trust another. therefore, trust then is an act of courage. We choose to be courageous and risk trusting, knowing that even if they or it fails us, we trust that we have the strength to overcome the pain. “
Bill Kerley
"Start doing what is necessary, then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi
"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?”
Buddha
"If wisdom arises in your mind you become humble and modest, as a branch laden with fruit is sure to bow low."
S. N. Goenka
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
Buddha
"This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, its with us wherever we are."
Pema Chodron
"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting."
E.E. Cummings
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Albert Einstein
"Happiness, just like love and compassion, isn’t something that is “out there,” something you pursue. Happiness is the result of getting the inherited and learned roadblocks out of the way so it can find expression through how we live."