Mandi Brown

“Who in your life has been such a servant to you…who has helped you love the good that grows within you? Let’s just take ten seconds to think of some of those people who have loved us and wanted what was best for us in life—those who have encouraged us to become who we are…. No matter where they are—either here or in heaven—imagine how pleased those people must be to know that you thought of them right now. —FRED ROGERS”
― Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

“Change how you breathe to change how you feel. Specifically, “belly breathing,” or taking deep, diaphragmatic breaths that cause your belly to rise and fall, has an immediate soothing effect on your nervous system.”
― Lara Honos-Webb, Brain Hacks: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning

“He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We are, all of us, exceedingly complex creatures and do ourselves a service in regarding ourselves as complex. Otherwise, we live in a dream world of nonexistent, simplistic black-and-white notions which simply do not apply to human life. There are none of us who are all good, all bad, all wise, all stupid or all anything at all. We are vast combinations of every kind of characteristic possible . . . and the world we affect is full of subtle and blatant incongruities and complex shadings, too. – Theodore Rubin”
― Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame