The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” — John Sutheralnd Bonnell

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.”
–Anne Frank

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
–Mark Twain

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
—Albert Einstein

Joy is the best makeup.”
—Anne Lamott

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
—Charlotte Brontë

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglement; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

— C.S. Lewis

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is more than just a feeling: it’s a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, “I understand” than to hear, “You’re right.”
―Molleen Matsumura