“May you find the good in your day, tuck it into your heart, and work to replicate it.  May you always know: you are enough.“
-Rebecka Peterson

“She finally saw a light she didn’t create herself”
- the internet about a tiny anglerfish

“When we feel empathy for others, we are more likely to act in ways that benefit the community as a whole.”

— Daniel Goleman

“When we feel empathy for others, we are more likely to act in ways that benefit the community as a whole.”

— Daniel Goleman

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
- Mother Teresa

“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone…and whatever  happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something. “
-Sandra Day O’Connor

“Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”

Michelle Obama 

“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”

Charles E. Kellogg, USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1938

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

– David Steindl-Rast

“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

– David Steindl-Rast

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, and understanding.”

-Alice Walker

“Gratitude is most powerful as a response to life. It becomes a matter of choice.”

–Robin Wall Kimmerer

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.”
–George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron

You are light, you are principle
When you love, invincible
Our shared light, indivisible
When we love, we're invincible

-Eddie Vedder

 “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.”

—Anne Lamott

“let growth be your mission. let healing be your reward. let freedom be your goal.”

― Yung Pueblo

“Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
You were bigger than the whole sky
You were more than just a short time
And I’ve got a lot to pine about
I’ve got a lot to live without
I’m never gonna meet
what could’ve been, would’ve been
what should have been you”

— Taylor Swift in “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”