"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers"

-Kahlil Gibran

Vicariously is a terrible way to live

“Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart” - Khalil Gibran

“How we Spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

"I quote others only “in order to better express myself.”

-Montaigne

Find what comes effortlessly, and then apply effort

I am more than happy to watch people get rich in a game I don’t want to play