“What has been wounded in relationship must, after all, be healed in relationship” - Carl Rogers

"Peace, it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work, it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” (unknown)

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi

“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.” - Native American Proverb

 “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” - Marie Curie

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” - Khalil Gibran

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”  - Jack Kornfield

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” - Audre Lorde

“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” - Albert Einstein

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” - Rumi

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller

“You cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew .” - Albert Einstein

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela

“So much of what we call abnormality in this culture is actually normal responses to an abnormal culture. The abnormality does not reside in the pathology of individuals, but in the very culture that drives people into suffering and dysfunction.” - Gabor Mate

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

“All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and calm, a Self that has been sheltered from destruction by the various protectors that have emerged in their efforts to ensure survival. Once those protectors trust that it is safe to separate, the Self will spontaneously emerge, and the parts can be enlisted in the healing process.” - Bessel van der Kolk