My Sanctuary

“It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.” ~ Debasish Mridha

“Hearts grow hard and weary. Pain spreads, and joy diminishes. Those who hated you hate you still, but those who loved you, or would have loved you, or wanted to love you but never had the chance, are being scraped hollow by a loss they don’t understand. Come home. Please come home. We are withering without you.”
― Bruce Coville, Dark Whispers

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. Kate Chopin

And then there are those whose imprint resurfaces, quietly, across time. 😊

“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” Elliot Page

“Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.~ Joanne Raptis

“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” Ray Kroc

“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.” Publilius Syrus

“It’s our roots that really give us our identity.”
Rosalia

Dancing into the Danger

“Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“Embrace your true self and courageously overcome any struggles”. DD

“Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others’ suffering.” Dalai Lama

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
Hans Christian Andersen

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie

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“It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” — Byron Katie.

Let the beauty of the sunrise keep your heart warm.
Lailah Gifty Akita

“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929)

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”
— Maya Angelo

“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.”- Sheila Murray Bethel

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“Balancing in yoga and life is a reflection of our inner state.” ― Shiva Rea

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. Warren Bennis

“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
— Anais Nin

“Map Your Own Journey. Go on your own journey. Don’t let others hold you back; don’t hold them back. Don’t judge their journey, and don’t let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls lead them to.”
― Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Alice Walker

“Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.”  ~ Helen Steiner Rice

What is it that You are afraid of?

What drives You?

“I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn’t changed: you have.”

― Doris Lessing

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings

“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”

Mother Theresa