Courtesy of Daily Good.org
Our relationship to most living things is, and must be I think, a moral one not a practical one.
Carl Safina
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Roald Dahl
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel.
Fred Rogers
Scarcity appears when wealth cannot flow.
Lewis Hyde
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
Michele Harper
What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you are by knowing precisely where you have been and how you got to where you are.
Wade Davis
If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
…to begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and
to live life as a process –live to become…
Paulo Freire
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea.
e.e. cummings
We suffer, ironically, from our indifference to those among us who suffer.
Parker J. Palmer
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
Plutarch
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
After awhile, looking and listening became something much more; I came to see and to hear the world, existence, more and more acutely. The more I watched and listened, the more I saw and heard.
Laurie Seagel
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
