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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself, don’t lose your sense of perspective.

- Pema Chödrön

If you don’t learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don’t hide warts and all, both sides, then you’re forever going to repeat history.

- Warren Mundine

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

- Ovid

Sometimes you don’t feel the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.

- Unknown

Eating well is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

- Elsa Schiaperelli

Self-care is not self-indulgence, it’s self-preservation.

- Audre Lorde

Go gently. There is only one you in this whole infinity of time and space. You deserve to honour your body, mind and soul as you would a piece of fine art… with respect, wonder

- Dr Sadhbh Joyce

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

- Dr Christopher Germer

At the Sunrise Ceremony, I meditate and ask the Great Spirit for direction. My hands fill with electricity. I touch you and you feel it, too. I heal people this way. My Grandmother did that,

- Guboo Ted Thomas

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

- E. Joseph Cossman

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change.

- Charles Darwin

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Self-compassion – taking care of ourselves just as we’d treat someone we love dearly.

- Dr Christopher Germer

This earth, I never damage. I look after. Fire is nothing, just clean up. When you burn, new grass coming up. That means good animal soon, Might be goanna, possum, wallaby. Burn him off, new

- Bill Neidjie

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.

- Sophia Bush

Ask yourself, “Who can I make smile this morning?” This is the art of creating happiness.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

- Albert Einstein