These are some ideas that resonate with me, and may be of use to you.
- “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
- “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” —Kahlil Gibran
- “Be here now.” —Baba Ram Das
- “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat.” —Joyce Cary
- “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” —Lao Tzu
- “Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.” —Dewey Bunnell, America
- “No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.” —Albert Camus
- “The goal of an anthropologist should be to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world.” —Bronisław Malinowski
- “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” —Carl Jung
- “On this third planet of the sun, among the signs of bestiality, a clear conscience is Number One.” —Wisława Szymborska
- “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” —Leo Tolstoy
- “If not now, when? We all must live our lives. Always feeling. Always thinking. The moment has arrived.” —Tracy Chapman
- “The moon is hot, the stars are cold. I’ve been there, that’s how I know. I’ve touched the desert sunset coal, and tasted of the melted snows of Kilimanjaro.” –Darryl Skrabak
- “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” —Kurt Vonnegut
- “When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is.”
- “To be kind to the next door baker, to be kind to the jailhouse crew, to be kind to a child in a fantasy wild, is the best thing you can do.” –Richie Havens
- “And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses
Oh, won’t you stay, we’ll put on the day, and we’ll talk in present tenses” –Joni Mitchell
