"Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie."

—Carl Gustav Jung

"Don't surrender your loneliness / So quickly. / Let it cut more deeply. / Let it ferment and season you / As few human / Or even divine ingredients can."

—Hafez, poet (1315-1390)

"The only true injury in life occurs by going into an experience and not being able to find the love in it."

—Martia Nelson, Coming Home

"Enough

Enough. these few words are enough
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.

This opening to the life
We have refused
Again and again
Until now.

Until now"

—David Whyte

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

—Thoreau

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

—Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

—Gandhi

"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do!"

—H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should..."

—Max Ehrmann

"May your life be like a wild flower... growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."

—Native American proverb