Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.  -Pema Chodron

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.  -Pema Chodron

The horizon leans forward,

Offering you space.

To place new steps of change

Here, on the pulse of this fine day,

–Maya Angelou

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it’s the other way around. Human rights invented America.  -Jimmy Carter

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.  -Pema Chodron

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
—Desmond Tutu

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. -Studs Terkel

If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition — the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth. -Michelle Obama

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves … But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean’s bottom. -William James