Emilie Richards

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.” ― George R.R. Martin

“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” Carl Sagan

“When we focus on gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” ~Kristin Armstrong, Olympic gold medal cyclist (from charterforcompasion.org)

  “Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.” — Tom Robbins “Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is…

“I have more compassion than if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed… those disappointments have made me gentler with other people and the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

“The cycle of degenerating discourse won’t stop if we insist that people we disagree with must first behave the way we want them to … The cycle stops when we recognize our responsibility to treat each other with the dignity with which we expect to be met. It stops when we choose to replace condemnation…

“The whole world is a series of miracles, But we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” -Hans Christian Anderson

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though we sometimes think we sense it. But even without deeper reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people – first of all for those upon whose smiles…

When someone spews something really hurtful, don’t pick it up and hold it and rub rub it into your heart and snuggle with it and carry it around for a long time. Don’t even put energy into kicking it to the curb. You gotta see it and step OVER it or go AROUND it and…