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In the darkness we can see the stars
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
—Henry David Thoreau
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
June 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.
- Shaun David Hutchinson, “We Are the Ants”
April 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.” – Sydney Smith
April 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
March 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.” - HRH Queen Elizabeth II
March 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
March 8th is International Women’s Day!
March 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
February 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

— Heraclitus
February 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If your voice held no power, they wouldn't try to silence you.
February 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day
- Joni Mitchell
February 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
- David Bowie
January 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We can’t be mesmerized by the worst things we see happening. - Pete Buttigieg
January 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The ancient Greeks invented lots of things we still have today, like medicine and olives, and a lot of things that have died out, like democracy and pillars. -Philomena Cunk
January 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
When chaos is all around you, the wisest choice is to create peace within you. - Yung Pueblo
December 26, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Listening is Compassion
Compassion is Understanding
Understanding is Education
Education is Listening
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 AM
The more space we make for stillness and silence, the more we have to give both to ourselves and to others. - Thich Nhat Hanh
December 15, 2024 at 3:24 AM
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Embrace the power of your dreams, for they have the potential to shape your reality. - Franz Kafka
December 13, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Happy International Volunteers Day
December 6, 2024 at 12:24 AM
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

Max Ehrmann, ‘Desiderata’, ©1927

You are not alone.
November 25, 2024 at 6:10 PM