On Poetry:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.  The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.” – T.S. Eliot

On Love:

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

“Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
― Jason Evert

“For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.”
― Charles F. Glassman

“A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

On Creating:

Mary Oliver – “I think we’re creative all day long.  We have to have an appointment to have that work out on the page.  Because the creative part of us gets tired of waiting, or just gets tired.”

Marcel Proust – “The real voyage of discovery consists not so much in seeking new territory, but possibly in having new sets of eyes.”

Nelson Mandela – “Don’t talk to their minds; talk to their hearts.”

Terence McKenna – “The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.”

Bruce Lee – “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless―like water. Be water, my friend.”

Sun Tzu – “Opportunities increase as they are taken.”

On Nature & Connection:

Thomas Merton – “Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.”

Herman Melville – “Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads…”

Alan Watts – “You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”

On Time:

Friedrich Nietzsche – “The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

Albert Einstein – “The only time that truly exists is Now. The distinction between past, present an future is only an illusion, however persistent.”