If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~Emily Dickinson
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
~Viktor E. Frankl
Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
~Lao Tzu
Only from your heart can you touch the sky.
~Rumi
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
~Joseph Campbell
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
~Carl Rogers
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.