A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans. If there is to be any true progress, then the entire life community must progress. --Thomas Berry (in The Rights of All Beings)

Embracing unrest is a journey for life, without a perfect endpoint. It's about changing your way of being with yourself when you don't feel good, so when unrest calls, you approach discomfort and access the power of your emotion. --Sandra Parker (in Four Ways We Avoid Our Feelings & What to Do Instead)

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
--Alexandra David-Neel (in How to Grow Re-Enchanted with the World )

Sanitizing your thoughts and your preoccupations not only squanders vital energy that would be better spent in your creative endeavors, but your not-so-presentable life can be enormously enriching and provide the compost for the development of compassion. --Darlene Cohen (in The Skills Necessary to Deal with Anguish)

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. --Barbara Kingsolver (in A Whetstone to the Spirit: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver)

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. --Denis Waitley (in Beauty & the Dumpster)