Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility.

– Terry Pratchett

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

– Rumi

You must love in such a way that the person that you love feels free.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.

– James Baldwin

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

– bell hooks

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

– Mother Teresa

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

Tell stories to help others understand your beliefs and opinions. Offer your stories, not in the hope that they will change anyone else, but because they deserve to live outside you. And when you’re a listener, allow the stories of others to change you.

– Elena Aguilar

Every day is difficult, and a worthy life reveals itself in our capacity to connect with each other, witness the good moments, and tell the truth about our lives.

– Jessica Slice, What Disability Taught Me About Parenting