Brain food

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

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

Before we can bounce back, we may first need someone to pick us up off the floor and put us back on the trampoline.

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.

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover gold.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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

Let’s start by taking a smallish nap or two.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.

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

Like the lines on your face, the answer is here, and the light in your eyes, don’t hide it away, like the dots on the shells, they shine.

Some beautiful paths cannot be discovered without getting lost.

The most powerful tech companies in the world are not neutral platforms. They are shaping our thoughts, behaviours and relationships.

The secret of change is to spend all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.