Wise Magpie

Hope Hope was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men. She was cruel in her fear; Through the bars one dreary day, I looked out to see her there, And she turned her face away! Like a false guard, false watch keeping, Still, in strife, she whispered peace; She would sing while I was weeping; If I listened, she would cease. False she was, and unrelenting; When my last joys strewed the ground, Even Sorrow saw, repenting, Those sad relics scattered round; Hope, whose whisper would have given Balm to all my frenzied pain, Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven, Went, and ne’er returned again! Emily Brontë

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver

"To Thine Own Self Be True" - William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"You have bewitched me body and soul. And I love... I love... I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." - Mr. Darcy, from Pride and Prejudice

The Swan This laboring through what is still undone, as though, legs bound, we hobbled along the way, is like the awkward walking of the swan. And dying-to let go, no longer feel the solid ground we stand on every day- is like anxious letting himself fall into waters, which receive him gently and which, as though with reverence and joy, draw back past him in streams on either side; while, infinitely silent and aware, in his full majesty and ever more indifferent, he condescends to glide. Rainer Maria Rilke

Pathways Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too. Rainer Maria Rilke

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King

A modern version of The World tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Sun tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of the Judgement tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Moon tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Tower tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Star tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of the Temperance tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of the Death tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Devil tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Hanged Man tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of the Wheel of Fortune tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of the Justice tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Hermit tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Chariot tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of the Strength tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Magician tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Empress tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Lovers tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The High Priestess tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Hierophant tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Fool tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

A modern version of The Emperor tarot card from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

Again and again Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the terrible reticent gorge in which the others end: again and again the two of us walk out together under the ancient trees, lay ourselves down again and again among the flowers, and look up into the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke

The Sanskrit words Lokah Samastah Sukinho Bhavantu comprise one of the most popular chants used in modern yoga classes. Translated into English, the words mean "May All Beings Everywhere Be Happy and Free".

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Atticus Finch (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird)

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ― John Lennon

Glad I Deg (Norwegian): Use to express fondness of someone you care about and cherish deeply; can be said of anyone in your life whose existence makes you happy; literally "happy in you".

Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

An “If” for Girls by Elizabeth Lincoln Otis