Self-care is important for all of us, especially because we’re in what amounts to a nationally traumatic phase. I think part of it is to remember that there is more to opposition than opposition. In other words, it’s not just about recognizing and cataloguing and publicizing all the things that are going wrong; it’s about modeling and celebrating the alternative. – Peter Buttigieg

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. -Albert Einstein

We should always have three friends in our lives. One who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way. -Michelle Obama  

How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  -Anne Frank

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness.  This is the judgement.  Life’s persistent and most urgent question is “What are you doing for others?” -Martin Luther King Jr.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.  -Thich Nhat Hanh

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss

When you turn the corner / And you run into yourself / Then you know that you have turned / All the corners that are left. -Langston Hughes

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.  -James Turrell

Change takes courage.  -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez