“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ”

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.”

“We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere, a book published in March 2017 by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, two women authors, Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel offer a ‘call to action’ for women everywhere. We explores nine principles: Honesty, Acceptance, Courage, Trust, Humility, Peace, Love, Joy and Kindness. These nine principles serve as a compass for women seeking direction. Without them, life can feel like a losing battle, they write. When you’ve learned to incorporate them into your life, you’ll be able to live from a place of authenticity and love wherever you find yourself and whatever has happened in your past.”

“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

“Do not cave.”

“Words matter. What we say and how we behave matters. We have to show love and empathy.”

“Be kind to one another.”

“Act justly, love tenderly, walk humbly with your God.”

“A good rule is to treat others the way you hope they will treat you.”

“To do something good, you have to be good.”

“It is not in the still calm of life…that great characters are formed.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Remind each other of the privilege and responsibility of the act of empathy.”

“I want to be better as a person.”

“I firmly and passionately believe that character is destiny.”

“Treat others with kindness, compassion and respect.”

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

“We must learn how to stand up and peak up for the right reasons when it may not be popular. And guess what…when you show courage, it inspires it in others. What will be the cornerstones of your leadership? You better begin to hone on what is your leadership compass. What will you stand for?”

“I believe that the church not only should apologize to the person who is gay whom it has offended, but has to apologize to the poor, to exploited women, to children exploited for labor; it has to ask forgiveness for having blessed many weapons.”

“You must never, ever hate, he said. Stand up, speak up, when you see something that is not right and not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something and say something and not be quiet.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“Choose Civility.”

“… what I come back to when I think about what my parents gave me … is a sense of wellbeing and security, a sense of being loved, it is a moral compass and understanding of what character and courage are. ”

“One of the great tests of character is how you treat people.”

“Be Good to One Another.”

“This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence.”

“Treat people with respect.”

“I try to be your emotional compass and point you in the right direction. ”

“Be kind and the world will respond in kind.”

“The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true.”

“Every human being longs to be happy, to satisfy the wants of the body with food, with roof and raiment, and to feed the hunger of the mind, according to his capacity, with love, wisdom, philosophy, art and song.”

“Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

“For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.”

“We rise by lifting others.”

“When verbal and written words pile lies on top of other lies, after the original foundational lies have been fact-checked and debunked, and then after that, the media is still attacked for their lack of complacency with the debunked reality versions, that reflects a person who lacks a moral compass.”

“Sixty-six percent of seniors in poverty are women, women who cared for us, clothed us, housed us … it is immoral… we must do more.”

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”

“The quality of your life depends on the quality of your relationships.”

“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”

“The True Test of Character is how you treat people.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“Sleep loss impairs your ability to read facial expressions accurately. Make sure you get plenty of sleep to recharge your emotional compass!”

“Ginger is like a compass—it points you in the right direction for the rest of the day.”

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ”

“Your moral compass, Mr. Grimm, needs some reorientation.”

“It is not necessary to believe in God to be a good person. In a way, the traditional notion of God is outdated. One can be spiritual but not religious. It is not necessary to go to church and give money – for many, nature can be a church. Some of the best people in history did not believe in God, while some of the worst deeds were done in His name. ”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Before there can be justice, there must be empathy. Before there can be justice, there must be a quickened sense of injustice. […] Our end is justice: our end is opportunity.”

“It’s very simple. There’s only one requirement for any of us and that is to be courageous because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior.”

“It’s been reported that if you do acts of kindness, you will extend your life expectancy for 3 ½ years. ”

“First thing is to diagnose it, acknowledge it and be made aware of it. The more we aware of it, we can solve the problem. Rhetoric and Finger Pointing does not work. Get beyond the status quo.”

“It’s really not about what you look like, it’s about who you are inside and how much you get out of being on the planet and much you give for being on the planet.”