“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” — Charlie Chaplin

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” — Ricky Gervais

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles M. Schulz

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.” - Phyllis Diller

“Laughter is like a windshield wiper; it doesn’t stop the rain but allows us to keep going.” — Unknown

“The heart that gives, gathers.” — Tao Te Ching (Laozi)

“The best gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”— Richard Moss

“Generosity is not an act. It is a way of living that enlarges the soul.” — Henri Nouwen

“The more you give, the more comes back to you — but it doesn’t come back to you from the place you expect.” — Robin Sharma

“When you give, you receive more than you give.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” - Unknown

“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” - Unknown

“People cross our paths for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.”

— Brian A. Chalker

“No one ever meets anyone by accident.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Some people come into our lives as blessings. Others come as lessons.”
— Mother Teresa

“We are all teachers and students. Every person we meet has something to show us.” — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” — Lao Tzu

“Every person you meet knows something you don’t.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Every relationship is a mirror in which we see ourselves more clearly.” — James Baldwin

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” — Anaïs Nin

“Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship is the gentle art of belonging.” — Pico Iyer

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession; friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel

“A true friend is somebody who can make us feel better no matter how bad things may be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” — Christy Evans

“We are all waves in the same sea.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Each of us is a thread in the fabric of life.”— Albert Schweitzer

“We are not separate beings on a separate journey. We are connected to one another and to the universe.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘the universe,’ a part limited in time and space.” — Albert Einstein

“All things are bound together. All things connect.” — John Muir

“Begin to see yourself as a cosmic being with unlimited potential, and life will rise up to meet you.”
— Michael Beckwith


“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” — Germany Kent

“Respect is the quiet agreement that both people matter equally.”
— Harriet Lerner

“Where there is respect, there is honesty.” — Dalai Lama

“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” — Miguel Ruiz

“The deepest longing of the human heart is to belong.”
— Henri Nouwen

“Belonging has no conditions. Fitting in requires you to change.”
- Natalie O’Rourke

"Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others find it in a person."
— Beau Taplin

"The belonging we crave is to a circle of love where we can be our true selves." — Unknown

"Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance."
- Brené Brown

“What makes you different or weird -that’s your strength.”

- Meryl Streep

“True belonging is the practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world.”
- Brené Brown

“No one can grant you self-esteem; it is a gift you give yourself.”
— Unknown

“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be seen, not solved.”
— Parker J. Palmer

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