Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

NHAT HANH

We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff.

Carl Sagan

When we're laughing, everyone sees the world the same way.

Jay Leno

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

NELSON MANDELA

A light heart lives long.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When you actually talk to each other, you realize how complex people are. They don't fall into nice, neat categories...we all feel better about ourselves and the country when we have conversations with people who see things differently than we do.

Paul Norris, Co-Chair of Braver Angels' Red Caucus

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

GARY SNYDER

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

ISAAC NEWTON

those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Winston Churchill

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

NOAM CHOMSKY