If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? -Milton Berle

“Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

The more you are by yourself without being ruled by social compulsions, the more you are enabled to access your original nature. ~ Sadhguru

 “But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”

― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. ~ Dolly Parton

 "We Indians do not teach that there is only one god.  We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things.  Stones have power.  A blade of grass has power.  Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power.  We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging its presence.  By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well.  It protects us."

~ Russel Means, Oglala Lakota,

"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings." - Stevie Nicks

 "In our daily life, we lose ourselves all the time. The body is here, but the mind is somewhere else - in the past, in the future, carried away by anger, jealousy, fear, & so on. The mind is not really present with the body. We are not really here. To be truly here, we have to bring the body back to the mind, & the mind back to the body. We have to bring about what is called the "unity of body & mind." This is very important in Buddhist meditation. Often, the body & the mind go in different directions, & so we are not fully here. Therefore, we have to do what is necessary for them to come back together again. Buddhism teaches us methods for doing this, such as mindfulness of the breath."

Thich Nhat Hanh

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard

 “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers,

and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
~ Black Elk, Oglala Lakota, (Wicasa Wakan-medicine man, 1863-1950)