"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you." —Rumi

"Always we begin again." —St. Benedict, Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue

Delivered this lamb.

Supervised the birth of these twins.

"Meanwhile the world goes on." —Wisława Szymborska, from the poem “Nothing Twice”

Ms Dorset and lamb. But check out the ewe in the background. Not her lamb so she nudged it away. The lamb was fine. The moment caught on camera.

Cutie Patootie and Mum

"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." —Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance." —bell hooks

"You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm." —Unknown (popularly attributed)

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting." —E. E. Cummings

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself" —André Gide