Quotes for the turning of the year – 2016
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”
— Henry Miller
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
— Voltaire
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Student says, “I am very discouraged. What should I do?” Master says, “Encourage others.”
— Zen Proverb
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
— Alan W. Watts
“There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
— Toni Morrison
“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”
— Iris Murdoch
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.”
— Antonio Machado
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
— James Joyce
“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men.”
— Virgil
“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”
— Cheryl Strayed
“Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
— Adrienne Rich