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Life Lessons…

Old words in the service of a new idea aren’t the problem. What inhibits creativity is new words in the service of old ideas.

- Malcolm Gladwell

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. I have some things to talk about and say and help. And, if I can't, then ... I don't feel necessary.

- Frances McDormand

With the word “creative” we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light — by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

- Pamela Travers, Creators on Creating

In that unbounded moment I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts; none amazed me so much as the fact that all occupied the same point, without superposition and without transparency. What my eyes saw was simultaneous; what I shall write is successive, because language is successive.

- Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph

If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness, and all of the other shallow things will not matter.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? For it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

- Feminist poet, Audre Lorde

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others – what and whom we can work with, and how – becomes wider.

- Pema Chӧdrӧn

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

- Carl Gustav Jung

I am love, I am kindness, I am discerning, I am healthy, and I am a commitment to women’s evolving well-being and equality.

Kathleen Barry, PhD

Age is only important if you are cheese.

- Actress, Bille Burke

Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.

- Sri Swami Satchidananda

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold, I have those already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

- Shana Abe

When you lose someone you love, your life becomes strange. The ground beneath you becomes fragile. Your thoughts make your eyes unsure; and some dead echo drags your voice down where words have no confidence. Your heart has grown heavy with loss; and though this loss has wounded others too, no one knows what has been taken from you when the silence of absence deepens.

- John O’Donohue

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

- A. A. Milne

Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart, and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.

- Testy McTesterson

The only way to overcome grief is to go through it!

- Paul Gitwaza

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

- Padre Pio, Quiet Moments by Patricia Treece

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

- Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself!

- Author, Katherine Mansfield

To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a song of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstanding of an abiding, foundation and necessary reality: that untouched we disappear.

- David Whyte

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