Month: October 2025

“Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are.” – Jonathan Franzen

“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.” – Jim Henson

“Self-love is a part of love just as self-interest is a part of friendship.” – George Sand, Indiana

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit your own image. If in loving them, we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them. We only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” – Thomas Merton

“If you really care about the quality of somebody’s life as much as you care about the quality of your own, you have it made.” – Edie Windsor

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You are your best thing.” – Toni Morrison, Beloved

“We never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb inside of his skin and walk around it.” – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

“When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh