“A sudden jolt of weather pushed us outside, and now this larger world once again belongs to us.” – Lawrence Raab
“I know there is something of everything in everything very near us if we care to look.” – Charles Plymell
“You are at the edge of azaleas shaken loose by a word. I see your rose-colored skirt unfurl.” – Yusef Komunyakaa
“You will find your way. it is in the same place as your love.” -nayyirah waheed
“Rather than being irreconcilable, continuity and change ‘are best seen as two aspects of a single dialectical process in which even major transformations of individuality emerge consequentially from the interaction of prior characteristics and circumstances.'” -Robert J. Sampson & John H. Laub, 1992
“Love is ancient evidence, an instrument constrained, jealous of its utility, in awe of its own death; every name embraces it.” -Jay Wright
“Lovely is the world rising early to evil,
Lovely is the world falling asleep to sin and pity,
In the mingling of ourselves, you and I,
Lovely is the world.” -Yehuda Amichai
“What we have is
what there is
and who we are
and who we is
is love.” – Tom Pickard
“How wonderful that the universe is beautiful in so many places and in so many ways. But also the universe is brisk and businesslike, and no doubt does not give its delicate landscapes and its thunderous displays of power, and perhaps perception, too, for our sakes or our improvement. Nevertheless, its intonations are our best tonics, if we would take them. For the universe is full of radiant suggestion…” – Mary Oliver
“As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.” – Charles Darwin
“Whether or not the experiment would succeed, is not of great importance… for by the experiment itself the conditions of life are changed.” – Charles Darwin
Responsible Hearts 