Thought of the Moment

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

- From The Glass Castle Read more

Seemingly trivial moments are the ones we tend to cherish the most, no? As someone once said, the best things in life are invisible - things we feel and think back on with fondness. Read more

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller Read more

No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day.

- Charlotte Eriksson Read more

Prayer does not change God, but it changes the person who prays.

- Søren Kierkegaard Read more

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