The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

You have to want a thing enough to reach out for it.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

You cannot fully understand a person’s need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you’ll fall short until you’ve...

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person’s life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted.

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it’s letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

But in the wake of ‘Bullet,’ all the guys wanted to know was, ‘How’s it doing? How’s it selling?’ How to tell them I didn’t give a flying fuck how it was doing in the...

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

If you weren’t built for this life, you’d be dead by now. i think the problem is people don’t share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in...

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in...

Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

see” your heart and rejoice with you.

But still – that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and...

No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.

If you’re treating people poorly then you’re not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

When we help others, we enlarge our boundaries within the reach of our helpers

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A...

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.

If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over...

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

Christ’s version of kindness: I know you are hurt. I contributed to that. Maybe, I should have said more. Done more. Listened. I am sorry for my part in the situation. I am sorry if...