"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."  ~Mary Oliver

"But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down the road to meet yourself. And you will say--YES." -Marion Woodman

"No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it". - Richard Bach

"Sometimes it feels like i'm chasing my own freedom, swirling toward another version of myself, if only I would allow it to be." Kelly Rae Roberts

"People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." Joseph Campbell

"Where flowers bloom so does hope." - Lady Bird Johnson

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.” - Thoreau

"....here's the truth: when we practice being open and vulnerable, blessings flood our lives. Our hearts soar on the freedom of released burden. And soon, we don't have to practice anymore once we've learned to speak from our own meaningful truth. It is the biggest miracle in my life to learn this lesson over and over again. My very own vulnerabilities, once seen as my weaknesses, have turned out to be the greatest strength I've known." -Kelly Rae Roberts

"If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say, it would be something like this: listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." -Frederick Buechner

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible" - Marge Drabble

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." -Jean-Paul Sartre

"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be." -Neale Donald Walsch

"It seems when we are paired with the person most perfect for us, the good parts of ourselves, the most liked pieces of our personalities seem to stay awhile longer, shine brightly, like glitter in the brilliance of moonlight. and you can never have enough shine, and brightness, and glitter. you just can't." -Kelly Rae Roberts

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-mark twain

"Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see" - william newton clark

what in your life is calling you?
when all the noise is silenced,
the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside,
and the wild iris blooms by itself in the dark forest,
what still pulls on your soul?

in the silence between your heartbeats hides a summons,
do you hear it?
name it, if you must, or leave it forever nameless,
but why pretend it is not there?

-terma collective, The Box

May our eyes remain open even in the face of tragedy.
May we not become disheartened.
May we find in the dissolution
of our apathy and denial,
the cup of the broken heart.
May we discover the gift of the fire burning
in the inner chamber of our being –
burning great and bright enough
to transform any poison.
May we offer the power of our sorrow to the service
of something greater than ourselves.
May our guilt not rise up to form
yet another defensive wall.
May the suffering purify and not paralyze us.
May we realize the greatness of our sorrow
and not run from its touch or flame.
May clarity be our ally and wisdom our support.
May our wrath be cleansing, cutting through
the confusion of denial and greed.
May we not be afraid to see or speak our truth.
May the bleakness of the wasteland be dispelled.
May the soul’s journey be revealed
and the true hunger fed.
May we be forgiven for what we have forgotten
and blessed with the remembrance
of who we really are.

~ The Terma Collective

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- HOPE always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death." Robert Fulghum

"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." Maya Angelou

“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” John Heywood

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." - Earl Nightingale

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say." Brenda Ueland

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath.

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace." -Frederick Buechner

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." ~ Zora Neale Hurston

"I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine." John Muir

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return." - Mary Jean Iron

"Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again." -Eudora Welty

"Still there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me" - VanGogh

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Picasso

"What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment." - Pauline Rose Chance