“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.”

– Natalie Goldberg

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our own life.

~M. C. Richards

“The doors we open and close each day determine the lives we lead.”

– Flora Whittemore

“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.”

--Ellen Goodman

“I am not what happened to me – I am what I choose to become.”

                                                              ~ Carl Jung

“It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

                                                                  – - Christopher Morley

 ”We give all the meaning there is to everything that happens.”

                                                   — Deepak Chopra

“The birds of sorrow may fly over your head, but you don’t have to let them make nests in your hair.”              

                                                       — Chinese Proverb

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

                                                          — Benjamin Spock

“You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.”

                                                              – Eric Hoffer