Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
-Jeanette Winterson


I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
-William Stafford


If she got really quiet and listened, new parts of her wanted to speak.
-SARK


You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
-J. Krishnamurti


Intimacy happens in moments. The mistake we make is wanting it all the time.
-Jo Ann Magdoff


Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.
-Gretel Ehrlich


And the sea will always be there for your soul to meet the tide.
-Ann Reed