Don’t worry about what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive & go do that.
Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman

You will never be able to escape from your heart.
So it is better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning one version of yourself to another.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

Your best ideas will come out to play…not work”

— Daniel Priestley

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.”

— Yvon Chouinard

What is most personal is most universal.”

— Carl R. Rogers

If you’re afraid to write it, that’s a good sign.
I suppose you know you’re writing the truth when you’re terrified.”

— Yrsa Daley Wardt

I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

— Jim Carrey

Purpose is spirit seeking expression”

— Kevin Cashman

Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.”

– S. N. Goenka

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

― Marianne Williamson

Dear Human:

You’ve got it all wrong.

You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. This is where you came from and where you’ll return.

You came here to learn personal love.
Universal love.
Messy love.
Sweaty Love.
Crazy love.
Broken love.
Whole love.
Infused with divinity.
Lived through the grace of stumbling.
Demonstrated through the beauty of… messing up.
Often.

You didn’t come here to be perfect, you already are.

You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous.

And rising again into remembering.

But unconditional love? Stop telling that story.

Love in truth doesn’t need any adjectives.
It doesn’t require modifiers.
It doesn’t require the condition of perfection.

It only asks you to show up.
And do your best.
That you stay present and feel fully.
That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal

and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU.

It’s enough.

It’s Plenty.”

― Courtney A. Walsh

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.”

— Edwin Elliot

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.”

— Paul Smith

Let the young soul look back upon its life and ask: What up to now have you truly loved, what has raised up your soul, what ruled it and at the same time made it happy?

Line up these objects of reverence before you, and perhaps by their sequence they will yield to you a basic law of your true self. Compare them and see how they form a ladder on which you have so far climbed up toward yourself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You only feel lost because you believe we are supposed to know where we are going.

— Unknown

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

— Joseph Campbell

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly
than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”

— Bhagavad Gita

If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember:

You are braver than you believe.
Stronger than you seem.
And smarter than you think.

But the most important thing is even if we are apart,
I’ll always be with you.”

— Winnie The Pooh