• “I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I know that i am not a thing-a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process.” Buckminster Fuller
• “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” e. e. cummings
• “It is a fake crown that we wear. My message would be to take off the fake crown. It will cost you more to keep it than to let it go. It is not real. It is just a marker of your programming. You will be happier and freer without it. You will see all of humanity. You will find your true self.” Isabel Wilkerson, quoting an Indian Brahmin in Caste
• “Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish” Michelangelo
• “Heed your life’s calling-that inner urge to give your gifts away” Richard Leider
• “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Rumi
• “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” Buckminster Fuller
• “Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” Robert Filliou
• “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” Henry David Thoreau
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” Mark Twain
• “Nothing is ours, except time.” Seneca
• “What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” Eugene Delacroix
• “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” Margaret Bonnano
• “The other side of every fear is freedom.” Marilyn Ferguson
• “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard
• “All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame great things can be constructed around it that are massive and powerful and world changing – all held up by the tinniest of ideas.” Nick Cave
• “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.“ Albert Schweitzer
• “I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” e e Cummings
• “If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.” Victoria Erickson