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“The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.” - Adrienne von Spey

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“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.” - Vincent van Gogh

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“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.” - Rachel Naomi Remen

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“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.” - L.R.Knost

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“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.” - Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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“Perhaps one of trouble’s greatest "side effects” is that it teaches us that life is rarely the way we want it to be; rather, life is simply the way it is. And we are simply the way we are. What we need is the desire to look for the gifts in ordinary and extraordinary experiences – and the wisdom to accept ourselves as we are. With this more expansive perspective of life, we begin to accept things and people for the way they are. We become less judgmental, more kind and loving. By accepting ourselves, others, and life as not being entirely okay, we become more okay than ever.“ - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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‘Human being’ is more a verb than a noun. Each of us is unfinished, a work in progress. Perhaps it would be most accurate to add the word ‘yet’ to all our assessments of ourselves and each other... If life is process, all judgments are provisional, we can't judge something until it is finished. - Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal

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"I hope you never waste a moment of your life afraid to change it.” - S.L. Grey

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin

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“Understanding the interconnected nature of oppression will help us realize the interconnected nature of liberation.” - Aditi Mayer

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Allen Saunders

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“Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I too am human. No matter how deep his wound, he does not need to be ashamed in front of me. I too am vulnerable. And because of this, I am enough. Whatever his story, he no longer needs to be alone with it. This is what will allow his healing to begin.” - Carl Rogers

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“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” - Rachel Naomi Remen

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“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.” - L.R. Knost

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“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captions of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” - Vincent Van Gogh

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“Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.” - Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation of the little things, my vivid inner life, my keen awareness to others pain and my passion for it all.” - Caitlin Japa