"I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was absolutely necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life, as to live so sturdily and spartan - like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world: or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
thoreau
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
e.e. cummings
"Fear not the great nor the mighty, but be wise and ever serene. Know the measure, know the times, study that. When left alone, pray...Love all men, love everything. Seek that rapture and ecstacy...Don't be ashamed of that ecstasy, prize it, for it is a gift of God and a great one; it is not given to many but only to the elect."
fyodor dostoevsky
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
marianne williamson
"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Walk on
walk on
with hope in your heart
and you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone