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  • Today may be a turning point.  It happens that way- not with flashing lights and fanfare, but quietly.

    Joyce Squichie Hifler

  • If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

    EM Forester

  • Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account: it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

    Annie Dillard

  • The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

    Carl Rogers

  • Fences are a spell propping up the illusion that the world around us is a prison, that the beauty which surrounds us is not a collective inheritance, that we have no right to live free and rich with the natural world.

    Jonathan Moses

  • Life is the sum of coincidences, consisting of moments that can be experienced or passed over.

    Juha Pentikäinen

  • In an age where there is much talk about “being yourself,” I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

    Thomas Merton

  • In truth, the heart must crack open if the soul is to become free. And you simply cannot think your way into that.

    Terry Patten

  • It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

    Diane Ackerman

  • One day, I will be what I want to be.
One day, I will be a bird, and will snatch my being out of my nothingness.

    Mahmoud Darwish

  • Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

    Edward Said

  • All we do is pass through here, the best way we can.

    Barbara Crooker