The problems we feel most alone with are, by definition, a shared reality with millions of others, separated by shame and shyness. - Alain De Botton

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? - Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm still learning to love the parts of myself that no one claps for. - Rudy Francisco

Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely, that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done. - Rudy Francisco

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. - Albert Schweitzer

there are feelings. you haven't felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. - fresh

My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways - and that's okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we're all these incredibly fragile beings. - Alain de Botton

Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped. - Carl Sagan

You can not find peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. - Robert Holden

Forgiveness is so radical and so filthy, and it gets made out to be such a casual concept, when really it might be one of the deepest things that we do as humans - to forgive for real deep hurts. - Brandi Carlile

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another. - Jack Kornfield

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. - C. S. Lewis

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act...it is often through taking action that we can discover some of them. - Charlotte Bunch

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall

When it comes to love, don't wait for somebody. You are somebody. - Marie Forleo

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life We have refused again and again Until now. Until now. - David Whyte

Replace "I will never be happy again" with "This shall pass." Everything is impermanent including this feeling of sadness and misery. - Haemin Sunim