Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano