Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. 

The biggest problem with communication 

is that we don't listen to understand. 

We listen to respond. When we listen with curiosity, 

we do not listen with the intent to respond. 

We listen to what is behind the words.

Roy T. Bennett

Does that diminish my own experience, 

because someone else is having it worse? 

There is always someone with 

a worse life than yours. 

That doesn't make your life 

a road of roses.

~ Elle Kennedy ~

"I will say that today is a beautiful day, 

not because of the weather or how beautiful 

the sky looks, but because it is a new day full 

of opportunities and a chance to start anew."

~ Onipede Ayomide ~

There is something beautiful about all scars,

whatever its nature.

A scar means the pain is over,

that the wound is closed and healed, that it is over.

~ Harry Crews ~

Whatever happens, 

in most cases there is a way to go. 

Move forward by assessing the facts, 

with a vision of the ideal outcome in mind. 

Act with kindness, consideration and care. 

And if there's still no path, 

it's time to forge it.

~ Grace Gibraltar ~