Ilosta

"May your joys be as deep as the oceans,
your troubles as light as its foam."

Irlantilainen sanonta.

Hajoamisesta

"Perhaps breakdown always contains the seeds of breakthrough."

Jeff Foster

Tarinoista

"Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories - your life, my life, old Husain's life, they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different."

Rohinton Mistryn kirjasta Family Matters.

Kokemuksista

"Everything is a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

Kobi Yamada

Tarkoituksesta

"The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."

Mark Twain

Rakkaudesta

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear love are already three parts dead."

Anton Chekhov

Elämästä

"We're all just walking each other home."

Ram Dass

Ilosta

"Trust all joy."

Erica Jong

Täydellisyydestä

"Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement."

Shunryu Suzuki

Muutoksesta

"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake 
is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

Pema Chödrön

Luottamuksesta

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float."

Alan Watts

Elossaolosta

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Thurman.

Pehmeydestä

"Soft shoulders"

Eilen bongailtuja keltaisenvirallisia liikennemerkkejä tien reunassa erämaassa (yleensä "Soft edges"). Hymyilytti ja teki mieli halata niitä reiskoja, jotka keksivät laittaa tekstin noin kauniiksi!

Rakkaudesta (ja viinistä)

"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

Eduardo Galeano

Merestä ja meistä

"The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth,
it can lie down like silk breathing
or toss havoc shoreward; it can give

gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth
like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can
sweet-talk entirely. As I can too,

and so, no doubt, can you, and you."

Mary Oliverin runo The Poet Compares Human Nature to the Ocean from Which We Came.

Tarpeista

"Elämä toteutuu meissä,
nainen työssä ja lapsissa,
ei kenenkään tarvitse lähteä
mitään toteuttamaan.
Paljoa et tarvitse:
hiljaisuuden, luonnon, lähimmäiset,
järjestys on tämä
jotta luopuminen helpottuisi."

Ote Helena Anhavan runosta.

Loppujen lopuksi

"In the end, only three things matter:
how much you loved,
how gently you lived,
and how gracefully you let go of things
not meant for you."

Buddha

Avartumisesta

"Kahlasin veteen miettivin jaloin.
Katselin kauan. Nähdä aloin."

Aila Meriluodon runosta Kahlaajatyttö

Parantumisesta

"Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means that it no longer controls our lives."

Joogasta (ja elämästä)

"Let your practice be a celebration of life."

Seido Lee Debarros