Meredith Maines

“Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
― Walt Whitman

“Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.”
― David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson