When joy is a habit,
love is a reflex.
~Bob Goff

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give,
and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
​~Deitrich Bonhoeffer

All that can save us is the sustained awakening of the human heart.
​~Jason McLennan

The universe is a single reality...one long sweeping spectacular process of interconnected events. The universe is not a place where evolution happens: it is evolution happening.
It is not a stage on which dramas unfold;
it is the unfolding drama itself.

This [great cosmological] story shows us in the deepest possible sense that
we are all sisters + brothers
fashioned from the same stellar dust, energized by the same star, nourished by the same planet, endowed with the same genetic code + threatened by the same evils.

This story...humbles us before the magnitude + complexity of creation.
It bewilders us with the improbability of our existence,
astonishes us with the interdependence of all things
​+ makes us feel grateful for the lives we have.
​And not the least of all,
it inspires us to express our gratitude to the past by accepting a solemn + collective responsibility for the future. 
~Loyal Rue

Minimalism isn't about subtracting joy from life, 
it's about adding
purpose, meaning + passion.
~Joshua Becker

The first problem for all of us, men + women,
is not to learn, but to
​unlearn.
~Gloria Steinem

We don't need a handful of people doing zero-waste perfectly.
We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.
​~Anne Marie Bonneau

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
~Center for Action + Contemplation

...and all at once summer collapsed into fall.
​~Oscar Wilde