“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.”
Elie Wiesel, 1928-2016
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.”
Katharine Lee Bates, 1859-1929
“If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ’s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.”
Angela of Foligno
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Beale Donald Walsch
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.”
― Brené Brown
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.”
Douglas Coupland,
Life After God (1994)
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
Maya Angelou
“Like most people, I’m afraid to be weird, so I’m always concealing my quirks, which is a shame. Our quirks are the very things that draw people to us. Our quirks make us who we are. Our quirks are all we have. Without them, we’re boring. Hide your quirks and you’re a Volvo.”
Josh Riebock,
Heroes and Monsters (2012)
“time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”
ee cummings
“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.”
Montel
“Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself — and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to — letting a person be what he really is.”
Jim Morrison
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
“Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken.”
Henri Nouwen
“Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.”
C.S. Lewis
“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Beale Donald Walsch
“Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.”
Keith Ferrazzi
Never Eat Alone
“What a long time it can take to become the person one has always been! How often in the process we mask ourselves in faces that are not our own.”
Parker Palmer
Let Your Life Speak
From These Hills 