“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

– David Steindl-Rast

“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

– David Steindl-Rast

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, and understanding.”

-Alice Walker

“Gratitude is most powerful as a response to life. It becomes a matter of choice.”

–Robin Wall Kimmerer

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.”
–George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron

You are light, you are principle
When you love, invincible
Our shared light, indivisible
When we love, we're invincible

-Eddie Vedder

 “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.”

—Anne Lamott

“let growth be your mission. let healing be your reward. let freedom be your goal.”

― Yung Pueblo

“Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
You were bigger than the whole sky
You were more than just a short time
And I’ve got a lot to pine about
I’ve got a lot to live without
I’m never gonna meet
what could’ve been, would’ve been
what should have been you”

— Taylor Swift in “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”

In rest I catch up with myself and become awake; 
I feel and see 
and smell and hear and taste
the life I’m in. 
And when I do, 
I find that it is charmed. "

-Justin McRoberts

 “Rest is not a reward; it is a necessity.”
- Brené Brown

“Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed.”

- Brianna Wiest

“How do you know you are growing in the right direction? You can breathe more deeply, think more clearly, and feel calmness and happiness flow more strongly through your being”
– Yung Pueblo

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”
- Oscar Wilde

 “Knowing a human is never just a handful of things but rather a unique slice of absolutely everything.”
-Donna Ashworth

"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
–Richard Rohr

“Stories are a communal currency of humanity.”

― Tahir Shah

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

–Maya Angelou

I’ll ride the wave where it takes me
-Eddie Vedder “Release”