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  • #1
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #2
    Anita Shreve
    “Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”
    Anita Shreve, Fortune's Rocks

  • #3
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

  • #4
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #5
    SARK
    “Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!”
    SARK, Succulent Wild Woman

  • #6
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #7
    SARK
    “I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.”
    SARK, Succulent Wild Woman

  • #8
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!”
    Mehmet Murat ildan

  • #9
    Erica Jong
    “I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.”
    Erica Jong

  • #10
    Nicole Krauss
    “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #11
    John Lennon
    “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
    John Lennon

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
    Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #14
    Anita Shreve
    “A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.”
    Anita Shreve, Eden Close

  • #15
    Wally Lamb
    “If your twin was dead, were you still a twin?”
    Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

  • #16
    Amanda Lindhout
    “There was a fine line between holding steady and dipping into despair.”
    Amanda Lindhout

  • #17
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #19
    Michael Barbarulo
    “God wants you to face the reasons why you separate yourself from Him. He will show you what you fear, what you need, and what you desire. He will inventory your beliefs and values, and help you line them up with His truth.”
    Michael Barbarulo: Author God's Healing Hands: Allow God To Reshape Your Soul

  • #20
    “Every flower blooms at a different pace.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #21
    Kamand Kojouri
    “These poems are cups
    that I pour my life into.
    Here,
    Drink!”
    Kamand Kojouri

  • #22
    “Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem



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