The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons. Nathaniel Branden

Only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner

There are many reasons to treat each other with great tenderness. One is the sheet miracle that we are here together on a planet surrounded by dying stars. One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself. Svetlana Alexievich

What if we don’t have to be healed to be whole? There are holes in every inch of the fabric that makes me who I am. Andrea Gibson