“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Tragedy, Pain, humanity, Safety
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”— Garrison Keillor, amazon.comTagged: Vanity, Goodness, gentleness, humanity
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.meTagged: Pain, Love, Choosing Love, Compassion, strength
“Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.”— Prince, goodreads.comTagged: Singers, Living well, Compassion
“People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good a…”— Kent M. Keith, amazon.comTagged: Love, Patience, Understanding, Idealism, Making Change
“People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving.”— Miranda July, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loving People, Relationships, Friendship
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the wor…”— David W. Orr, amazon.comTagged: Peace, Love, humanity, Success, Compassion
“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Love, Breakups, Relationships, Heartbreak
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Tragedy, Pain, Suffering, Overcoming Pain, Moving On
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, Broken Heart, Failed Attempt, Love, Relationships
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”— Lemony Snicket, goodreads.com
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Life, The World, humanity, Good, Evil
“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Goodness, Virtue, Vices, Heaven, Hell
“I like to sit at the airport. I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: Love, Reuniting, Happiness, Joy, humanity
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”— Frederick Buechner, goodreads.comTagged: Life, Fear
“Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.”— Randy Pausch, goodreads.comTagged: People, Change, Love
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens…”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.comTagged: Life, Love, Taking Risks, Emotion, Betrayal
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Hope, Crisis, Crises, Change
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”— Angela Davis, amazon.comTagged: Transformation, Change, Reform, Oppression, Overcoming Oppression
“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Good, Evil, Morality, Mankind
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.comTagged: Love, Change, Idealism, Hate, Inspirational
“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant fuckups — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open h…”— Cody Gohl, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Relationships, Pain, Trust, Disappointment, Morality
“In the end, I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.comTagged: Love, Growth, Personal Growth, Growing Through Love, Poetry
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty e…”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.comTagged: Compassion, Love, Empathy, Empath, Pain
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are diffe…”— Arundhati Roy, goodreads.comTagged: Peace, Art, Love, Compassion
“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”— Ellen Degeneres, advocate.comTagged: Love, Compassion, LGBQT, Pride, kindness