John Bourgeois

“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.”

Walker Percy

“Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?”

William Blake, “On Another’s Sorrow”

“…[Compassion] means not indifference to our times and our neighbors: it means absorption in time. And absorption in our neighbors. It means forgetfulness of self in others. It means entering into every man’s hopes and fears, longing and despairs … It means not that we should live one life, but a thousand lives – bind ourselves to a thousand souls by the filaments of so loving a sympathy that their lives become ours.”

B.B. Warfield

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” —Brené Brown