“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Mitch Albom

“No prison is more secure than the one you don’t know you’re in.”

-William Shakespeare

“Our relationship to self is what determines the kind of relationships we will allow, engender, and cultivate with others. Understanding our self is what leads to understanding others. Intimacy with self, to a great degree, determines our capacity for true and lasting intimacy with another — psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual.”

-David Daniels, M.D.

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."

– Emma Thompson

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

– Meister Eckhart

"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.”

Malcolm Gladwell 

“Just remember the true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart.”

-The Polar Express

“Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror.  Just keep going, no feeling is final.”

-Rilke