Audre Lorde

"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

Victor Hugo

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."

Dalai Lama

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"This is my simple religion: There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

"Be kind whenever possible -- it is always possible."

Francois LeLord

"Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts."

Antoine de Sainte Exupery

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

Terry Goodkind

"When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane."

Johnny Depp

"Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you."

Mark Twain

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Barbara Kingsolver

"To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another, that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!"

Dexter Morgan

"They make it look so easy...connecting to another human being. It's like no one told them it's the hardest thing in the world."

Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world, trying to find someone to love."

Snow Patrol

"I don't want to run. Just overwhelm me."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.  It is up to you to give life meaning."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better."

Sylvia Plath

"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted."

Albert Einstein

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by how well it can climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Catriona MacGregor

"We can learn to live lives of greater meaning by living closer to nature and understanding that the sacred exists at our fingertips."

Anon

"It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if realized how seldom they do."

Alison Croggon

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”

Thomas Jefferson

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."

New Year Inspiration

"Start wherever you are and start small." -Rita Baily 

"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting." -Buddha

"Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -Saint Francis of Assisi