"When we try to pick ...."

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

"In oneself lies ...."

“In oneself lies the whole world ....”

"I am because we are"

“Ubuntu” 

(I am because we are)

"Teach us that wealth is not elegance ...."

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Benjamin Disraeli

"See the simple ...."

“See the simple and embrace the primal, diminish the self and curb the desires.”

"On with the dance ...."

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;

No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

 George Gordon, Lord Byron