Mandi Brown

“We are, all of us, exceedingly complex creatures and do ourselves a service in regarding ourselves as complex. Otherwise, we live in a dream world of nonexistent, simplistic black-and-white notions which simply do not apply to human life. There are none of us who are all good, all bad, all wise, all stupid or all anything at all. We are vast combinations of every kind of characteristic possible . . . and the world we affect is full of subtle and blatant incongruities and complex shadings, too. – Theodore Rubin”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

“Love, you will never lose me to the wind. You are the lightning that made me fill my chest with candles. You are the thunder clapping for the poem nobody else wants to hear. You are an icicle’s tear watering a tulip on the first day of spring. You melt me alive. You kiss me deep as my roots will reach, and I want nothing more than”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“The unexplored oceans of our hearts and minds are normally the result of a lack of time and trust in the dreams we dreamed as children. But adults forget how to believe that their dreams might still come true.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Who in your life has been such a servant to you…who has helped you love the good that grows within you? Let’s just take ten seconds to think of some of those people who have loved us and wanted what was best for us in life—those who have encouraged us to become who we are…. No matter where they are—either here or in heaven—imagine how pleased those people must be to know that you thought of them right now. —FRED ROGERS”
― Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe