"life is not, nor every has been, a straight line forward...life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. life...is both loss and renewal...chaos and healing at the same time; life seems to be a collision of opposites" -richard rohr


"an ounce of action is worth a ton of theory" - ralph waldo emerson


"when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world" - john muir


"empathy is the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. and that someone elses pain is just as meaningful as your own.” - barbara kingsolver


“joy is an act of resistance” -toi derricotte


“when we no longer able to change a situation we are asked to change ourselves"- victor frankl


"plant your sorrow 
in the soil. next year it will 
grow into a set of oars. " - victoria chang


"we see the world not as it is, but as we are"- anais nin


“you can dance in the rain or you can cry in the rain. it will rain no matter what you do."


"success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."- winston churchill


“as long as you think someone else is responsible for the way you are, you cannot become the way you want to be."


“drink from the well
of your self
and begin
again.” —charles bukowski


“you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."—albert camus


“attention is the beginning of devotion” - mary oliver 


"conviction is the intermingling of clarity and courage"


"plant your sorrow 
in the soil. next year it will 
grow into a set of oars. " - victoria chang


"maybe your garden isnt growing because everytime a flower grows, you cut it to prove to someone that you're a gardener."


"and into the forest i go, to lose my mind and find my soul" - john muir