“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” — Viktor Frankl

“I would rather be whole than good.” — Carl Jung

“One of the worst things you can do to a woman is shame her for loving beauty.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD

“There is no safety. Seeking it is painful.” — Alan Watts

“Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust the current knows where it is going.” — Richard Bach

“I’m a girl…we’re wordy.” — Me

“To hold your breath is to lose your breath.” — Alan Watts

“If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.” — Jesus (unpublished Book of Thomas)

“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

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” — Rumi

“You are quaffing a drink from a hundred fountains; whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.” — Rumi

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” — Rumi

“Relationships with others must not take precedence over the relationship with yourself, or you lose yourself.” — (have to find the source on this one!)