Chris Glossup

“Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“We've submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible.
But simply punishing the broken- walking away from them or hiding them from sight- only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
― Bryan Stevenson

“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember