As I browse back through journals and such, I come across quotes that have meaning for me. Here are a few.
Plato
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Anais Nin
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful that the risk it took to blossom.
Van Gogh
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Christopher Morley in The Haunted Bookshop
It's a good idea to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour glass,
to let the particles run the other way.
Walt Whitman
The world will be complete for him who himself is complete.
Simone Weil
Absolute attention is Prayer!
Goethe
Once you commit to something, life moves in ways you never could have imagined.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves but little time for other occupations.
George Sand
Our life is composed of love and not to love is to cease to live.
Henry Miller
Everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.
Rumi
This time when you and I sit here,
two figures with one soul,
we're a garden,
with plants and birdsong moving through us
like rain.
