Quotes for the turning of the year — 2016

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.” — Henry Miller

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” — Voltaire

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil

“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The universe is wider than our views of it.” — Henry David Thoreau

Student says, “I am very discouraged. What should I do?” Master says, “Encourage others.” — Zen Proverb

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” — Alan W. Watts

“There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.” — Toni Morrison

“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.” — Iris Murdoch

“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” — Virginia Woolf

“Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.” — Antonio Machado

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” — James Joyce

“Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.” — Virgil

“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.” — Cheryl Strayed

“Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.” — Adrienne Rich

Originally published at 5thingsilearnedtoday.com on December 31, 2015.