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“A kindergarten boy who saw people falling in flames told his teacher that the birds were on fire. She ran with him on her shoulders out...

”Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand." — Patti Smith, singer-songwriter My mother was one of...

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a...

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." — Anatole France, French poet I haven’t told this before. The...

"I have two hands: one for me, one for other people." — Millie Bobby Brown, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador My heart is heavy. At...

"It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me." — Cheryl Hayashi, spider biologist Most days I fail to save anyone....

"The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us." — Anthony Fauci, MD,...

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” — Mahatma Gandhi A year ago today,...

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." — Desmond Tutu, human rights activist & Nobel Peace Prize winner...

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." — Pablo Casals, Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist, composer &...

“everything here / seems to need us” — Rainer Maria Rilke Paddling in fog this morning, I think, is this what Pablo entered or what he...

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.” — Sydney Smith, writer & cleric, 1771-1845 Driving,...

“The end is where we start from.” — T. S. Eliot If I Could See the End Coming I wouldn’t expect a sudden white light or a familiar...

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything...

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than...

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color." — W. S. Merwin Sundog The...

“If I speak for the dead . . . I must write the same poem over and over . . . .” — Illya Kaminsky, poet A Possibly True Story Once there...

“Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.” — Winnie...

“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself . . . we are star stuff harvesting star light . . . Our loyalties are to the species and to...

“We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning we awaken to the light . . . each night we surrender to the...