“The world is your garden from which you remove weeds of doubt and replace them with seeds of hope.”
— Unknown
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
-– Anaïs Nin
“I just do the best job I can with what’s in front of me and follow the path that reveals itself.”
— Ina Garten
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Willingly accept the complexity and the contradictions of life.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“You didn’t get stamped out of a mold. You aren’t a “black person” or a “white person,” a “fat person” or a “skinny person,” a “bad person” or a “good person.” You are a highly complex human being with emotions, beliefs, capabilities. Each day you face challenges to your health, relationships, finances, and world-view — and every day you respond to those challenges in ways which are unique to you.”
— Unknown
“Honor and love all of your unique self. Never diminish yourself with self-applied labels or categorizations.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem.
We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.”
— Harold Evans
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
— Socrates
“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”
— H. L. Mencken
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma,a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
— Umberto Eco
“Dare to Believe ; Dare to Dream ; Dare to Achieve”
— Unknown
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
— Fr. Alfred D’Souza
“Every lesson is a widening and deepening of consciousness. It is a stretching of the mind beyond its conceptual limits and a stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries. It is a bringing of unconscious material into consciousness, a healing of past wounds, and a discovery of new faith and trust.”
— Paul Ferrini
“The treasures we seek are not outside but within ourselves – beauty, truth, peace, happiness. We have everything we need. Just as in every walk with nature we receives far more than we seek, by looking beneath we become aware of our greatness.”
— Unknown