An American Pilgrimage Quotes & Sayings

Empathy is always perched precariously between gift and invasion ... Empathy isn't just remembering to say 'that must be really hard'
it's figuring out how to bring difficulty into the light so it can be seen at all. Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination ... Empathy means realizing trauma has no discreet edges.p7 — Leslie Jamison

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. — Sherry Anderson

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. — Baruch Spinoza

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not. — Flannery O'Connor

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. — Rick Riordan