self renewal

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

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

"Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change." -Rob Brezsny

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh