Amy

“We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.”
― Pema Chodron, The Pocket Pema Chodron

“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
― Edward J. Stieglitz

“WOMEN sit, or move to and fro — some old, some young;
The young are beautiful — but the old are more beautiful than the young.”
― Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass