“Let the fire inside you burn brighter than the fires around you.”

Kim Bradley

Chalkboard sign at a Greek cafe:

“FRAPPES: Colder than your ex’s heart”

“The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 2

“But for mine own part, it was Greek to me.”

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2

“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!”

~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2

“If you can’t decide between two options, flip a coin.

Assign one option to “heads” and the other to “tails,” then flip the coin.

Your heart will tell you which choice you really want to make by the feeling you have when you see the result.

If you really wanted the option assigned to heads, and the coin lands on heads, you will feel relieved.

If you really wanted the option assigned to heads and the coin lands on tails, you will feel disappointed.

This answers the question, “What do you want?”

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”

~Chinese Proverb

I sing the body electric, the armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, they will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, and discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. . . .

~ Walt Whitman

“Though the act of writing is a solitary occupation, being a writer requires community.”

~ JA Hennrikus

“Unpathed waters, undreamed shores,”

~William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 4

Have you ever heard the phrase “Comparison is the death of joy”? Or its companion phrase “Comparison is the thief of joy”? These quotes, from Mark Twain and President Theodore Roosevelt, respectively, may sound like important advice but what do they have to do with self-confidence?

“Keep thy friend under thy own life’s key.”

William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”

William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors, Act III, Scene 1

There is freedom in following your heart: freedom from others’ expectations, freedom from fear, and freedom from limiting beliefs. -Kim Bradley

“I’ll teach you how to flow.”

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1

The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1

It’s nearly the ides of March, made infamous by Shakespeare’s tragedy, Julius Caesar. However, its not the middle of March that caused Caesar’s and Brutus’ downfalls as much as it was their denial of their personal truths. What if they had dared to be different?

The first line from my favorite book is “The primroses were over.” I have read that book every summer of my life since it was first introduced to me in fourth grade. It never gets old.

The “tears” of the mastic tree have been prescribed for healing for over 2,500 years. Hippocrates mentioned these magical tears as a cure for digestive problems and colds. But what are they?