The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere—
in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves.
When we experience the Beautiful, there is a wonderful sense of homecoming; we feel fully alive. Our lives become illuminated and we come to glimpse behind the shudder of appearances,
the sure form of things.

Beauty is the true priestess of individuation.
But our times are dominated by anxiety and by what is vulgar, coarse, and artificial.
Were Beauty to awaken in the fields of politics, religion, planning, discourse, and seeing, our world
would heal and fresh wells of hope would refresh us.

- John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Openness is our greatest human resource.
- Rebecca Walker

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

I passed a thousand signs
looking for my own name.
- Johnny Cash, The Wanderer

Visionaries are dreamers with a work ethic.
- David Schmike, Editor, Utne Magazine

Authenticity not only takes courage, it takes stamina. There will be tough choices, and misunderstandings. There will be 11th hour changes and mid-course corrections. And there will be a marvelous tension in your life ... creative tension. With momentum, there will be more of you to go around.
- Danielle LaPorte, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti

Religion without sex is a rattling skeleton,
and sex without religion is a mass of mush.
- Alan Watts

If you're at a dead end, take a deep breath, stamp your foot, and shout "Begin!" You never know where it will take you.
- Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit