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“If you were in your body you’d be home by now. —Berkeley bumper sticker”
― Tosha Silver, Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead

“Consumerism has become a hypnosis that keeps our culture immature, as it keeps us overly focused on ourselves and on material desires, instead of on cultivating deeper soul richness. Corn”
― Sandra Ingerman, Speaking with Nature: Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth

“Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that’s greater than zero.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“You too might find that your women friends are your truest friends, your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.”
― Philippa Gregory, Three Sisters, Three Queens

“There was no good reason to deny innocent people a safe place to live.”
― Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

“Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don’t share: Courage comes from doing common things.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“He has dark skin,” she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, “because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,’ which means ‘The whole world is a family.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“All I am saying is relax. Listen to the wind, feel the water. See where life’s breeze wants to take you. Look, if God wants to give you a bigger oar or two, he will. He has plenty. There are times, however, when he’s trying to blow us one way and we’re paddling like crazy the other. Occasionally we just need to stop and be grateful.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“We call him Jonathan, which means a gift from God.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“DROPPING KEYS The small woman Builds cages for everyone She Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners. —HAFIZ”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“This is the business of dying well. The sorting out of what’s worth the fight and what’s not. The peeling off of old resentments. The laying down of arms. It’s a time of reckoning, of balancing our books and paying those we owe. But when done well, with clear eyes and an open heart, we learn to cherish those last precious days, and perhaps even to be grateful. We realize at long last that life in this world is finite, and with our wicks beginning to burn low, we cast about for other sources of light. For memory and meaning. For love stripped of need or wound. Pure, perfected, peaceful. This is transition. Not a fight, but an easing, an embrace of the eternal, of who and what we will be on the other side. Complete.”
― Barbara Davis, Every Precious and Fragile Thing