Mistakes

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

~Neil Gaiman

Coffee

Ode to Coffee on Elephant, here.

Love

 

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness
and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but
make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea
between
the shores of your souls.”

~ Khalil Gibran

The Greatest Teacher

“Your greatest teacher, your greatest guru, is already within you at the centre of your chest” ~Dharma Mittra

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up…….I still believe that we shall overcome!”
~Martin Luther King’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo, December 10, 1964

Other people.

I sit in a coffee shop preparing to start studying a topic for my final medical licensing exam.  This is not an unfamiliar spot for me.  Settling in with my books open, notes ready, prepared for a few hours of work.  Next to me sits a young woman, enjoying a latte while reading the paper.  Next to her, she has a copy of the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.  I imagine her having a life full of these inspiring type of activities.  I look back at my computer ready to read some cases on osteoporosis, and consider the last decade of sacrifice that have made this career journey possible.

Rising

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
~Confucius

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Another World.

“Another world is not only possible,
she is on her way.
On a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing.”

~Arundhati Roy

Personal Stories

“To bring about a paradigm shift in the culture that will change assumptions and attitudes, a critical number of us have to tell the stories of our personal revelations and transformation.” ~Jean Shinoda Bolen