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