If I had influence with the good fairy who’s supposed to preside over the birth of all children, I should ask her gift to each child in the world a sense of wonder so indestructible it would last throughout their life. ~Rachel Carson (1907-1964, Marine biologist and conservationist)
Work on reversing your caught-up, self-important attitude and remain relaxed in this process. Instead of always being caught in a prison of self-absorption, look out and express gentleness to all things. Then just relax. ~Pema Chodron (1936 to pres., Buddhist Teacher)
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. ~Sensei Ogui (Priest of the Jodo Shin Shu True Pure Land School of Buddhism)
Hope is radical openness for surprise— for the unimaginable. If that is the attitude with which we look, listen, and open all our senses, we enter into a meaningful relationship with whatever Life offers us at a given moment. ~Br. David Steindl-Rast (1926 to pres., Benedictine Monk)
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. ~Henri Nouwen (1932-1996, Dutch Catholic priest, writer, theologian, psychologist)