self renewal

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” -Melody Beattie

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike

“The times are urgent. Let us slow down.” —Bayo Akomolafe

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

-Margaret Mead

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

-Anne Lamott

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha