“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”

- Toni Morrison, Songs of Solomon

“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”

- Henrik Ibsen

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.”

- Cassandra Morris

“Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“It doesn’t matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn’t matter what we do.”

- Charly Heavenrich

“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”

- Marcel Proust

“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

- Victor Hugo

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

- Laura Ingalls Wilder