I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Halldór Laxness

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

Jocelyn Soriano

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

Deepak Chopra

Two may keep counsel, putting one away

William Shakespeare

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Ricky Williams

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Andrew Bernstein

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Benjamin E. Mays

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

La Monte Young

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

Charles Eisenstein