Grace

“Don’t give in to your fears,” said the alchemist, in a strangely gentle voice. “If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You do what you can. What you'd done may do more than you can imagine for generations to come. You plant a seed and a tree grows from it; will there be fruit, shade, habitat for birds, more seeds, a forest, wood to build a cradle or a house? You don't know. A tree can live much longer than you. So will an idea, and sometimes the changes that result from accepting that new idea about what is true, or right, just might remake the world. You do what you can do; you do your best; what what you do does is not up to you.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

“Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” —Dr. John Trainer”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family