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Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by choices....

Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett, novelist and playwright Think...

“May you always know you have my hand to hold.” — JJ Heller When my granddaughters were young, they delighted in having their meals...

The cultivation of compassion is really a process of recovery – of retrieving an inherent capacity that has become, either in the moment...

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus Unless there is some time for being together psychologically -...

“The meaning of life is to find your gift...." Pablo Picasso A couple of days ago, we shared one strength with each other in our...

Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one...

"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own...

"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of...

"Be curious, not judgmental." (perhaps falsely attributed to Walt Whitman, poet; endorsed by Ted Lasso, me, and my compassion circle)...

"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings." Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift Yesterday, my...

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes, author, ethicist, theologian My husband...

Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate...

“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”- Brené Brown. A remarkable scene unfolded...

“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? ― Alexandra Katehakis, psychotherapist Stock...

“Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless...

“Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the...