High school wisdom

Here are scanned pages from my high school notebook where I collected what I considered to be sage advice and quotes.

A lot of these quotes, which now seem banal, really helped me survive the discomfort of high school and bullies and a broken heart.

Here are the quotes that still resonate with me twenty years later:

“Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.” — Natalie Goldberg

"Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. The superior person settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.” — Lao Tzu (apparently refuted)

“The greatest unexplored territory is the space between our ears.” — unknown (to me)