“The ego either needs something to fight for or something to fight against. …  When change isn’t something to fight for or fight against, you become the change you wish to see by allowing life to change you for the better.”  Matt Kahn (My mind is my shelter)

“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning.” Mother Theresa (Love Seeks to Serve)

“Everyone has their own experience. That’s why we are here, to go through our own experience, to learn, to go down those paths and eventually you may have gone down so many paths and learned so much that you don’t have to come back again.”  Prince (social media post)

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” Rabindranath Tagore (Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore)

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher in storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds)

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” Cynthia Occelli (Resurrecting Venus)