Lao Tzu

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; to do so only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things."

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

"Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something."

"No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been."

"In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody."

"It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself."

Ernest Hemingway

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

William Arthur Ward

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

Rebecca West

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.” 

Lauren Oliver [Before I Fall]

"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people - to see one tiny part of them and confuse it with the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."

William Shakespeare [Henry V]

"All things are ready, if our mind be so."