"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other."
- Wendell Berry
Awareness
"You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough."
- Wendell Berry
Balance
"We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist."
- Wendell Berry
Creativity
""We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.""
- Wendell Berry
Creativity
"The earth is what we all have in common."
- Wendell Berry
Connection to Earth
"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
- Anne Lamott
Joy
"Tuesdays are for chasing rainbows and dancing in the rain."
Joy
"You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness."
Joy
"Taste and see how good the Lord is! The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy!"
Joy
"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."
- W. C. Jones
Joy