“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself” (Viktor Frankl).

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“A true sense of community creates a strong sense of individual personhood…. True individuals create true community. And true community creates true individuals” (Richard Rohr).

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“Justice is what love looks like in public” (Cornel West).

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How do you walk humbly with God? How do you? How do you walk humbly with anybody?… [By] coming to grips with who I am, what I am as accurately and as fully as possible: a clear-eyed appraisal of myself. And in the light of the dignity of my own sense of being I walk with God step by step as [God] walks with me. This is I, with my weaknesses and my strength, with my abilities and my liabilities; this is I, a human being myself! And it is that that God salutes. So that the more I walk with God and God walks with me, the more I come into the full-orbed significance of who I am and what I am. That is to walk humbly with God” (Howard Thurman)

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“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it . . . No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here” (Ram Dass).

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“Words of encouragement motivated by the wish for someone’s happiness can function as a source of revitalizing light, rousing courage and strength” (Daisaku Ikeda).

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“Joy is the transformation of our suffering, not the escape of all we have to face” (Mark Nepo).