Joe Hill

"What a blessed - if painful - thing this business of being alive is."

Jack Kornfield

"The trouble is, you think you have time."

Robert Duvall

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.

That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies.

You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.”

Robert Duvall as Hub McCann in Second Hand Lions

Leonard Cohen

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in ..."

James Baldwin

 "We can disagree and still love each other, provided your disagreement is not rooted in my oppression, and the denial of my humanity and right to exist." 

JRR Tolkien

 “Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”

Max Ehramm (Desiderata)

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."