Author Archives: TA Loeffler

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. – Madame de Stael

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. –Albert Schweitzer

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. –Erica Jong

The true measure of one’s worth lies not where you come to be at journey’s end, but in the lives you touch along the way. –Anonymous

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. –Eliza Tabor

To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed. –Gretel Ehrlich

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. –Paulo Coelho

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. –Jeremy Irons

All human wisdom is summed up in two words–wait and hope. –Alexandre Dumas Père

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. –Matsuo Basho

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. –Aeschylus