“An injury is not just a process of recovery,

it’s a process of discovery.”

- Conor McGregor

“We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors,

we borrow it from our children.”

- Native American proverb

“It seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities —

With his god-like intellect which has penetrated into

the movements and constitution of the solar system —

With all these exalted powers —

Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp

of his lowly origin.”

– Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man

“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life

as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

- Joseph Campell

Not just beautiful, though - the stars are like the trees

in the forest, alive and breathing.

And they’re watching me.

- Haruki Murakami

"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.”

– Socrates

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If these guys are the good ones, I don't want to know the bad
You wonder how it happened, they just picked it up from dad
While faded old glory is hanging like a rag
Defenders, defenders of the flag.

- Bruce Hornsby and The Range, Defenders of the Flag

Have I lived enough? Have I loved enough?

Have I considered Right Action enough,

have I come to any conclusion?

Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?

Have I endured loneliness with grace?

I say this, or perhaps I’m just thinking it.

Actually, I probably think too much.

Then I step out into the garden,

where the gardener, who is said to be a simple man,

is tending his children, the roses.

- “The Gardener,” by Mary Oliver

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

- Rumi

Sometimes the truth don’t rhyme.

Sometimes the lies get millions of views.

Funerals for little girls, is that appealing to you?

From your cubicle desktop, what a beautiful view.

- Chance the Rapper, “Acid Rain”

Take me to the old playground

Where the old ones rule, and the young ones do their time.

Take me to the old playground

Where the talk is cheap

And the restless stalk that baseline. 

- Bruce Hornsby & The Range, “The Old Playground”

“The key…is being aware of how you’re feeling

and how you need to be feeling.

It all starts with awareness.”

- Kobe Bryant

“You don’t want to beat yourself up for beating yourself up, in the vain hope that it will somehow make you stop beating yourself up.”

- Dr. Kristin Neff

“That’s why they call it the American Dream,

because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

- George Carlin

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden

“Leave the road, take the trails.”

- Pythagoras

“Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around

thinking it will protect us when, in fact,

it’s the thing that’s preventing us from taking flight.”

-Brene Brown

“What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”

- Mary Oliver 

“Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.”

- Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa, “Black Panther”