“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” – Susan Sontag

“Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love…is the imperfection of the human being.” – Joseph Campbell

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.” – Pablo Neruda

“What cannot be said will be wept.” – Sappho

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus

“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” – Marianne Williamson

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.” – Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin In The Sun

“Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.” – Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.” – Margaret Culkin Banning

“You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.” – Cheryl Strayed