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“The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.”
– Gabrielle Bernstein

“Never allow anyone to be humiliated in your presence.”
– Elie Wiesel

Quote by Dr. Maya Angelou shared via Cleo Wade.

“If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”
– Alan Watts

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
– Charles Bukowski

“A candle loses NOTHING
by lighting another candle.”
— James Keller

on how to not take on their mess.

listen.
ask questions.
be a mirror.

it’s not about you.
it’s not about you.
it’s not about you.

protect your heart.

From the book love language by Adrian Michael

They don’t publish
the good news.
The good news is published
by us.
We have a special edition every moment,
and we need you to read it.
The good news is that you are alive,
and the linden tree is still there,
standing firm in the harsh Winter.
The good news is that you have wonderful eyes
to touch the blue sky.
The good news is that your child is there before you,
and your arms are available:
hugging is possible.
They only print what is wrong.
Look at each of our special editions.
We always offer the things that are not wrong.
We want you to benefit from them
and help protect them.
The dandelion is there by the sidewalk,
smiling its wondrous smile,
singing the song of eternity.
Listen! You have ears that can hear it.
Bow your head.
Listen to it.
Leave behind the world of sorrow
and preoccupation
and get free.
The latest good news
is that you can do it.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Don’t ignore what you know in your heart.”
– Bianca Sparacino

By Bianca Sparcino aka @rainbowsalt.

“Every breath is an opportunity to let love in.”
– Joel Leon

you made wings
out of broken things
and rose above
the ones
that hurt you
– Adrian Michael

(From a book called love language)

When day comes, we ask ourselves:
Where can we find light
In this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry, a sea we must wade.
We braved the belly of the beast,
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
And the norms and notions of what ‘just is’
Isn’t always justice.
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it,
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.
We, the successors of a country and a time
where a skinny Black girl, descended from slaves
and raised by a single mother,
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one.
– The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman

“Kindness multiplies and it enables possiblity. When we’re of service to people, we have the chance to make things better.”

Three types of kindness, by Seth Godin

“You are the sky.
Everything else –
it’s just the weather.”
– Pema Chödrön

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
– Frank Zappa

“I don’t think we’ve even seen the tip of the iceberg. I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. I think we’re actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying… I’m talking about the actual context and the state of content is going to be so different to anything that we can really envisage at the moment. Where the interplay between the user and the provider will be so in simpatico, it’s going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about… The idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience come to it and add their own interpretation and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle. That grey space in the middle is what the 21st century is going to be about.”
– David Bowie