"Life’s impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It’s what shapes our time here. It’s what makes it so imp...

"Because your soul must be lonely. That silence you heard, when you tried to pray - that’s the sound of God listening." ~Emma Dono...

"Consensus and appeals to authority are not just unscientific, but anti-scientific." ~John Tillman

"As I always say, it's not the severity of punishment itself but the certainty of getting caught that deters a person from committi...

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in ...

Seven Mile Beach Gerroa NSW  April 10, 2021 "At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We...

“The axe cannot boast of the trees it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman.” ~Dr. Samuel Brengle

"We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak." ~Nanette L. Avery

"The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy it doesn't matter how others see you." ~Wendy Mass

"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience ...

"Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The...

"Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and gives exceeding thanks for the mystery which rem...

“A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.” ~Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind “A profound dislike for merely abso...

"Ignorance breeds fear. If you do not keep fear in check, it will breed hatred. If you do not keep your hatred in check, it will breed ...

"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it." ~John Crowe

“It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far a...

"Time withers the strong... In shadow of past glory." ~Bag-iw Lumpias Gil, a one liner from his poem IGOROT PRIZEFIGHTER

"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a compa...

"Purposefully surround yourself with people that inspire you to uplevel." ~Grant Eilertson

"To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, tha...

"If you can't find peace within yourself you can't find it anywhere else." ~Marvin Gaye

“Truth is the most powerful weapon because people are too weak to resist it. Speak the truth at first and no one can hurt you.” ~Harriet Rub...

"Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out." ~Michael Burke "One of the eternal truths i...

"I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even af...

"The human heart is a strange organ. It can feel both love and bitterness towards the same person at the same time." ~Leslie Bocob...