It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength of live and our reasons for living.
-Simone de Beauvoir


At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
-Jean Houston


Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
-Baruch Spinoza


Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
-M.C. Richards


It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
-May Sarton

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'
-Carl Jung

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-Anais Nin