To see things in the seed, that is genius. --Lao Tzu (in A Sparrow's Song To Lift Up the Sky)

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. --Jean-Baptiste Massieu (in 15 Year-old's Letter to the Yard Across the Street)

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding. --David Hawkins (in Dr. Frederick Sontag: A Time of Searching)

Listening well is the most eloquent sign of caring. --Deborah Tannen (in How to Embrace Your Political Enemy)

Be impeccable with your word. --Don Miguel Ruiz (in Responsibility of Rocking the Boat)

In times such as these, it is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream -- the failure is to fall short of dreaming all that we might realize. --Dee Hock (in Finishing First: What It Really Means to Win)

Become the kind of person whom nobody fears. --Arun Bhatt (in Arun-dada: I Just Love Thy Silently)

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. --Doug Larson (in What Makes Someone Wise? A Global Study Explores.)

Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. --Antonio Machado (in The Londoners Walking Their Way to Better Mental Health)

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. --Edgar Degas (in How ‘Pollinator Pathmaker’ Can Help Us See Like a Bee)

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. --Kurt Vonnegut (in Crafting Gives Greater Life Satisfaction, Survey Finds)

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Art of Healing: How Creativity is Changing NHS Mental Health)

According to Plato, two people, by challenging and responding to each other, can come closer to the truth than either one could by himself… It is something which neither of them knew before, and which neither would have been capable of knowing by himself. --Ervin Laszlo (in Five Ways to Tap Into Other People’s Wisdom)

… if we wait for the perfect time, the perfect person, the perfected self, we’ll stay frozen in an idea of love. But if we fearlessly engage with the life spread out before us, we will be rewarded with a heart that can hold it all — happiness and messiness, clarity and confusion, love and loss. --Pema Chodron (in Iris Murdoch: How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely)

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud. --Shannon L. Alder (in How Does Your Personality Affect Your Happiness?)

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. --Maya Angelou (in Ice Cream Aunties Bring Joy and Healing)

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our day. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Circles in the Sand)

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings --Agnes Martin (in Spiral Dance – A Conversation with Mary King)

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. --Carl Jung (in Conversation with Bebe Barrett: Seen and Unseen)

I think people are inherently kind: let’s empower people and give them the opportunity to do something good, something that makes a difference. --Alison Bunce (in So No One Dies Alone)

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. --Jane Howard (in Do Friends Lengthen Life?)

When you understand giving, when you understand receiving, you understand that it is all self-organizing. You just have to dance, and in some moments you’re asked to give and in some moments you are asked to receive, but your ultimate prerogative is to just dance. --Nipun Mehta (in The Benefits of Volunteering)

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. --Mother Teresa (in The Surgeon Who Accepts Community Service as Payment)

Kindness is free, so sprinkle that stuff everywhere. --Wavy Gravy (in Conversation with Michelle Esrick: Making “Saint Misbehavin’)

We belong to each other. We are sister and brother. Born to love one another. --Garth Brooks (in Do You Find Belonging in Groups or Communities?)

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. --Susan Sarandon (in Four Days, Three Nights)

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton (in A New Strategy to Cope with Emotional Stress)

Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond. --Robin Wall Kimmerer (in Saying Goodbye to the Tree that Changed my Life)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Growing Movement to Embrace Aging)

In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. --Pico Iyer (in How Being Distracted May Lead You to Overindulge)

By discovering nature, you discover yourself. --Maxime Lagacé (in A Look at the Rise of Nature Prescriptions)

A library should not shush; it should roar! --Catherynne M. Valente (in ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’)

Thus it was that ancient people recognized that a magical quality, a spirit, circulates along with gifts. --Charles Eisenstein (in NJ Librarian Rents Out Wedding Dresses for Free)

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. --Maya Angelou (in Former Businessman Greets People on Street Every School Morning )

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further. --Joanna Macy (in Meet the Rodents Saving Lives)

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them. --Magic Johnson (in Families in One Town Adopt 77 Children. This Couple Led the Way.)

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. --Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (in Cultivation and Practice: Q&A with Rev. Heng Sure)

The most organizing conversation starter is “What do we want to create together?” --Peter Block (in When People Reach Out To Help Their Neighbors...)

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. --Zhuangzi (in Bringing France’s Waste Prevention Plan to Life)

But I know a greater reality and a greater awareness exists. I know there is a truth that cannot be thought, only received. --Tracy Cochran (in The Night I Died)

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. --Larry King (in Four Steps to Help People Feel Listened To)

Our hearts are actually designed to empty and fill at the same time, receiving and sending lifeblood with every pulse. If the heart does not empty, it cannot fill. --Cynthia Li (in Infinity of an Open Heart)

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. --John Lennon (in The Solutionary Way)

It doesn't matter where I'm from, where our past is, or what our future might be. We are here now. So let's relate with one another. --Sister Marilyn Lacey (in Sister Marilyn: To Come and See)

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. --Sandra Day O'Connor (in I Double Dare You)

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. --Alexander Den Heijer (in Why Age Diversity Is a Strength at Work)

We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany. --Dacher Keltner (in Exploring the Science of Everyday Wonder)

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. --Karl Augustus Menninger (in A Listening Room in Munich for a Restless Urban Society)

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here? --Raffi (in The Whisper of Reverence)

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation. --Margaret Wheatley (in How the Pandemic Led One Photographer to Greater Collaboration)