Quotes February 18, 2021

They laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
Kurt Cobain
 
 
 
 
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
 
 
 
 
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
 
 
 
 
We are not our experiences. The harm we do and things we experience do not define us or who we are, they just inform who we are becoming.
Aqeela Sherrills
 
 
 
 
To get better at wintering, we need to address our very notion of time. We tend to imagine that our lives are linear, but they are in fact cyclical.
Katherine May
 
 
 
 
When we are able, when we are sufficiently still and relaxed–letting it happen, not doing it–we can receive a resonance from a greater consciousness.
James George
 
 
 
 
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
Raymond Carver
 
 
 
 
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
Stanley Kunitz
 
 
 
 
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
George Eliot
 
 
 
 
How do we carry the weight of the world?
With love.
Emily Rose Barr
 
 
 
 
The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
Masanobu Fukuoka
 
 
 
 
There are these brilliant people in the world, but I always bow down to the so-called average person who shows that, in fact, average human people can and do change the narrative in a very profound way.
James O’Dea
 
 
 
 
I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
Be vocal in times of beauty.
P. Lal
 
 
 
 
Avoid overthinking, overanalyzing, and complicating things. Keep everything simple. Life is much more beautiful and enjoyable this way.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
Gratitude: Always have it. Never expect it.
Unknown