—WHEN IT HURTS THIS BAD, YOU KNOW IT MATTERS

 

“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” Tom Petty 

 

“The opposite of play isn’t work, it’s depression.” Stuart Brown

 

“Help is the sunny side of control.” Anne Lamott 

  

“Around us, life bursts with miracles—a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap…..When we are tired and feel discouraged by life’s daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.” Madeleine L’Engle

  

“It’s scary to live with uncertainty, to live without closure or conclusion." Ryan Meeks

 

“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” Mary Oliver

 

“I think if you’re really honest with yourself, life usually gives you what you want.” HIMYM

 

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.
—Joy Harjo

 

“It costs $0.00 to remind someone they aren’t alone in this world.” Robyn Field

 

“Children are the light at the end of the tunnel. Even when parenting feels like the long dark tunnel, they are the light.” Aaron Giblreath

"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives." Tracy Chapman

“Write as thought nobody’s watching, because nobody’s watching.” Dan Brown

 

“It’s easy to latch onto the answer.” Ryan Meeks