“There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You mustkeep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you ortreat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband,no—nobody. Youhave to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't youknow I'm a child of God?”
— Dr. Maya Angelou
“Share with people who've earned the right to hear yourstory。”
— Dr. Brené Brown
“Whatever you do in life, remember: Think higher and feeldeeper. It cannot be bad if you do that。”
— Elie Wiesel
“The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughtsand feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom toemerge。”
— Marianne Williamson
“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face asyou pass on the street: those faces are for you. ... Remember thiswhen you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing。”
— Miranda July
“Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to seethemselves through the lens of genuine compassion and treatthemselves accordingly. ”
— Martha Beck
“Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ...open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they'veshied away。”
— Mark Nepo
“No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But infacing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you findreal strength。”
— Pat Summitt
“Love liberates. Love—not sentimentality, not mush—but true lovegives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, 'Don't dothat, baby.' And the person will know you're not preaching butteaching。”
— Dr. Maya Angelou