Thought of the Moment

You can’t choose who another person is, but you can choose who you want to associate with. You can choose who you want to befriend, who you want to date, who you want to work with. You can’t control others, but you can control your choices and responses to them. It’s far easier to choose kind people than to choose an unkind person and try to change them into a kind person.

- Emily Maroutian Read more

How do you know if you have forgiven someone?

You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with them. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes Read more

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.

- Joshua Loth Leibman Read more

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

- W. H. Auden Read more

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

- Dr. Stephen Covey Read more

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

- Robin Williams Read more

What you seek is seeking you.

- Rumi Read more

After physical survival, our greatest human need is psychological survival or the need to be understood, affirmed, validated, and appreciated. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

Empathy is not sympathy. A sympathy is a form of agreement. Empathy is not agreeing with someone; it is fully, deeply understanding that person, emotionally as well as intellectually. Read more

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

- Anais Nin Read more

Home is where people notice that you're not there.

- Alexander Hayman Read more