Humble advice: Don’t graduate from being a student of life. Keep your eyes and heart open, curiosity alive because it will keep you alive. Here are some reminders to use every sense you’ve been equipped with to feel everything fully, to appreciate the little things, to live like you mean it.

This is what courage means: doing the things that scare you because you know it’s through those things that you’re going to shift the world. Here are some notes to remind you that you were born to reach out and touch the world with your truth.

You know how freeing it feels to belong to yourself, to be your own advocate? It’s nice, standing in stark contrast to suppressing who you are. Here are a dozen quotes about being brave enough to stand in your own presence and live life on your own terms. That’s the freedom that underlies the greatest joys of living.

Letting life be a classroom opens a lot of doors, makes light out of the darkness, mends a broken heart, and plants meaning where others harvest nothing but suffering. Instead of being a victim, being a student of life lets you live more, love deeper, give & receive easier. Read these quotes if you want that.

Oh, Autumn, how I love thee. Though I have come to enjoy (through practice) the experience of each season, my soul cannot help but rejoice in the crimson and copper earth. Hence – 11 new favorite quotes about autumn and every shade of its grandeur.

Some quotes about grace: to open you up to a new level of inspiration and, well, grace. This is also a reminder that you don’t always need to handle everything alone. Grace feels like walking hand-in-hand, space for wonder and a deep breath.

Balance isn’t about perfect harmony all of the time but learning to identify patterns that bring about unbalances and to continuously be aligning your head and heart. To encourage your patient evolution and explorations: these quotes about balance.

Before you cater to everyone else, ask yourself what it is YOU could do today to be at home within yourself. Leave it up to everyone else, and peace seems pie-in-the-sky. Through mindfulness and care, you take back your light. And that’s what coming home (to yourself) feels like: a peaceful strength, a sanctuary.

Brief and brimming with timeless wisdom, each of these Tao Te Ching quotes pulled me right in. Since this classic text has been inspiring people all over the world for centuries, I thought it appropriate to share my favorite poetic passages with you here.

What would it look like to be there for yourself? It might look like showing up for the heartache with a little more love than you’re used to giving yourself. It could sound like a sigh of relief after you’ve said “I think I might be enough.” Whatever it means, these poems are reminders that you’re not on your own.