It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you,

But what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Mark Twain

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. L. R. Knost

Given sincerity, there will be enlightenment. The Doctrine of the Mean, 200 BCE

Like a bird with broken wing

That has traveled through wind for years

I sleep and my heart stays awake.

George Seferis

I learn by going, where I have to go. Theodore Roethke

What we resist, persists…

Before we blink, we know each other. Nepo

The ocean is smart – the waves recede to gather energy for the next one. Carole Starkes

Live slow enough

And there is only the beginning of time.

Nepo

The weak overcomes the strong

The soft overcomes the hard

Everyone knows this

But few practice it.

Tao Te Ching