I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -Pietro Aretino

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. -Tom Lehrer

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. -Maya Angelou

When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you.  -Rhonda Byrne

More Daniel Tiger less guns!

“you will never be older or younger then are are right now” the past is the past, the future is yet to come, you exist in the now…( or do you? ) live life to the fullest, love deeply now, …not for what was, or what is yet to come…..love for the” IS-ness” of the moment.  – Keith Mollison

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.  -Pema Chodron