Water

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water" - W.H. Auden -

Trust

"Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you."  - David Allen -

Wait

"I said to my mind, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love

For love would be love of the wrong thing; yet there is faith

But the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:

So the darkness shall be light, and the stillness the dancing.  - T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker"  The Four Quartets -

Learn

"I do things I do not know how to do in order to learn how to do them."  - Picasso -

Puck

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."  - Wayne Gretzky -

Better

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."  - Dr. Seuss -

Information

"In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information"  - Henry Jenkins -

Sorrow

"Someone I loved once gave me

A box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand

That this, too, was a gift."  - Mary Oliver, "The Uses of Sorrow"-

Small

"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way." - E. M. Forster -

Sorrowful

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."  - Kahlil Gibran -

Love

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."  - Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger -.

Troubles

"Before you go to bed, give your troubles to God...He'll be up all night anyway."  - Mary C. Crowley -

Wilderness

"This is the wilderness time,
 when every path is obscure
 and thorns have grown around the words of hope.
 
This is the time of stone, not bread,
 when even the sunrise feels uncertain
 and everything tastes of bitterness.
 
This is the time of ashes and dust,
 when darkness clothes our dreams
 and no star shines a guiding light.
 
This is the time of treading life,
 waiting for the swells to subside and for the chaos to clear.
 
Be the wings of our strength, O God,
 in this time of wilderness waiting."

 – Keri Wehlander from "600 Blessings and Prayers from around the world" compiled by Geoffrey Duncan -

Exercise

"The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise." - Peter O'Toole -

Sojoumer

"I alternate between thinking of the planet as home
 - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden -
 and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners."  -  Annie Dillard from Teaching a Stone To Talk -