Kathleen

“Hot tears dripped to the dirt at my boots. “I love you.” “Yes, you do. Don’t forget.” “Never.” “Neither will I.” His throat bobbed as he swallowed. “I will find you. Here, or in the shades.”
― Devney Perry, Shield of Sparrows

“I didn’t ask to be married to a stranger and shipped across the continent. I didn’t ask to come to Turah. I didn’t ask to be jailed in a wilderness treehouse. Those were decisions made for me by the whims of men. So you can threaten to take away my freedom all you want, but I will fight you. Every step of the way. Until my last breath. And I will not go quietly into a cage.”
― Devney Perry, Shield of Sparrows

“In his Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan...
writes "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, loved out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar', every 'supreme leader', every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

“The Stoic philosopher Epictetus believed that emotions were a product of thinking. "It is not events that disturb people," he wrote. "It is their judgments concerning them." This was an empowering view, because it meant by changing how we think, we could change our feelings as well.”
― Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World