" Nature loves courage. You commit, and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who counted and touched the alchemical gold understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. "

— Terrence McKenna

" A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self. "

— Marian Sandmaier

" The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb. "

— Munia Khan

" The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. "

— Jean Giraudoux

" Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. "

— Santosh Kalwar

" The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. "

— Deb Caletti