quotes
“I do not know who coined the phrase ‘Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better,’ but he or she must have had a great fantasy life. In 65 years on earth, my pattern has never been onward and upward. It has always been up and down and back around.” —Parker Palmer
“Any person at forty or fifty years of age who is not appalled by some of his or her choices in the earlier decades is either dumb lucky or remains unconscious.”
—James Hollis
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
— Howard Thurman
Starlight Leadership
“Hygge is humble and slow. It is choosing rustic over new, simple over posh and ambience over excitement. In many ways, hygge might be the Danish cousin to slow and simple living.”
Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living
Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living
Do I live my life according to my own deepest truths, or in order to fulfill someone else’s expectations? How much of what I have believed and done is actually my own and how much has been in service to a self-image I originally created in the belief it was necessary to please my parents?
Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté
“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
“The mind unanchored in the body is always trying to be something or somebody, the mind is always attempting to control the body: the body exists in its own form of freedom, always under the gravitational influence of something far beyond the mind's understanding.”
—David Whyte, Constellations II