“Treat people with kindness because behind every face is a story that could use a little more love.”  Cheryl Richardson

“Anytime you’re going to grow, you’re going to lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe.  You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”  Carl Jung

“When we reject our relatedness to the poor, the weak, the simple and the unlovable we define the family of creation over and against God.  In place of God we decide who is worthy of our attention and who can be rejected.  Because of our deep fears, we spend time, attention, and money on preserving our boundaries of privacy and increasing our knowledge and power.  We hermetically seal ourselves off from the undesired ‘other’, the stranger, and in doing so, we seal ourselves off from God.  By rejecting God in the neighbor, we reject the love that can heal us.”  Fr. Ilia Delio

“Too often we underestimate the power of the touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all which have the potential to turn a life around.”  Leo Buscaglia