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“What the pupil must learn, if he learns anything at all, is that the world will do most of the work for you, provided you cooperate with it by identifying how it really works and aligning with those realities. If we do not let the world teach us, it teaches us a lesson.”— Joseph Tussman

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”— Viktor E. Frankl

“So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?"  I love this question.  There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment.”— Kamal Ravikant

“Wabi sabi is an intuitive response to beauty that reflects the true nature of life. Wabi sabi is an acceptance and appreciation of the impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete nature of everything. Wabi sabi is a recognition of the gifts of simple, slow, and natural living.”— Beth Kempton

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love...”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely. Instead of pursuing attention via wealth or fame or power, pursue wisdom and goodness. There are 2 paths to being loved. The first path is to be rich, famous, powerful. The second path is to be wise and virtuous.”— Adam Smith

“The courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. When you have gained that courage, your interpersonal relationships will all at once change into things of lightness."— Ichiro Kishimi

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.""— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Often “suffering” comes to us in the form of a breakdown, which is really just a breakthrough that we haven’t seen the other side of yet. As hard as it may be to grasp, all things are good, because all things serve us in the way of growth and development."— Brianna Weist

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."— Junichiro
Tanizaki

“It's the one who shapes life with hours, who is master of attitude regardless of conditions, who feels entitled to nothing except that which is earned, who knows the pride of effort regardless of outcome, and who, instead of settling for less, asks quietly, "Why not me?"

It is the visionary who is impractical, who is even at times ridiculed, but who thinks independently and listens to the still inner voice to avoid the regrets of those who wonder what might have been if only they'd followed the pull of their soul.

It's the one who lives with purpose and intention; who shows up each day and does the bard task; who seeks satisfaction over pleasure; who strives to make a difference, to make the world a better place; but who, when actions fail to produce impact, will know that failure was never due to partial efforts.

It is finally the one who lies spent, exhausted, certain that there's nothing more that could have been offered on the altar of life, who meets the end with a clear conscience of having passed the ultimate test of giving one's best.— John Soforic

“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen.

On the contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence.

It is, in fact, seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility.

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself. — James P Carse