Thought of the Moment

"They simply did not have it in them to be the parents I wanted them to be. So how could I blame them?"

- Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard Read more

"...making people suffer doesn’t make them more virtuous, it just makes them despise you."

- Jesus Land: A Memoir Read more

"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."

- The Hunger Games Read more

A child learns gratitude by not getting everything she wants. A child learns patience by waiting. A child learns generosity by sharing and giving. A child learns self-control by having to control herself. And above all, she learns contentment by not being trained to always need more and faster. Read more

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- The 14th Dalai Lama Read more

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. Read more

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

- Robert Louis Stevenson Read more

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

- Henry David Thoreau Read more

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

- Jonathan Safran Foer Read more

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone Read more