“Never doubt the sacredness of the question.” (Carrie Newcomer)
“Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming.” (Alice Walker)
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” (Carl Rogers)
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.” (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” (William Butler Yeats)
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” (Frederick Buechner)
“Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lesson ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.” (John Adams)
“So here is my little nugget of gospel truth for you to take home. The truth is not that it is going to be alright. The truth is, it already is.” (Fredric Evans)
“My only advice for you is this. Go within yourself and probe the depths from which your life springs.” (Rainer Maria Rilke)
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” (C. S. Lewis)
“Do not be daunted by the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” (The Talmud)
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)
The Quest for a Good Life 