Wisdom building

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield

Civilization is a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. -Werner Herzog

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Thich Nhat Hanh

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. - John Muir

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

David M. Bader

Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far

Jodi Picoult

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Letting go of our images of who we are is a way of letting go of the known, which is our prison.

Pema Chödrön

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

ETTY HILLESUM