Brian L. Brown

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — ROBERT HEINLEIN”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.” — SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL”
― June Eding, How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life

“All our lives we rework the things from our childhood, like feeling good about ourselves, managing our angry feelings, being able to say goodbye to people we love. —Fred Rogers”
― Gary Gulman, Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

“When we pray frequently and know that God is in us here and now, we are very attentive to others because we are less preoccupied with ourselves. We are less worried about ourselves and if we are not very worried about ourselves we see other people more clearly. We see their struggle. We see their beauty. We see their kindness. We see that they are not trying to hurt us but that they have their own problems. We are much gentler, because we are in the presence of the Spirit. We realize these people are also struggling.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety