The world would crumble completely absent the quiet, unshowy, unselfish, sustained kindness of people like you.

Sasha Chapin • An open letter to 56 people I know

I admire so much that despite your insane life circumstances, you remain chill and humble and curious, many of the wealthy and powerful people I’ve met are just fucking weird in a way that you’re not even a little bit.

Sasha Chapin • An open letter to 56 people I know

Want to make the world a better place? Tell someone you believe in them.

Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About

I remember reading this quote from Elie Wiesel years ago and it’s become a practice for me—even when I’m enraged or afraid: “Never allow anyone to be humiliated in your presence.”

Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we could treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely love more ... See more

Rosie Spinks • Tuesday night dinner

How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are. Everything in life is a subset of one or a combinatorial function of all three. Seek people who love and give generously, who have the strength to suffer without causing damage. (Only strong people are safe people, the measure of strength being not the absence of v... See more

Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian

“Always look for the helpers,” he explained to his viewers who were scared or disillusioned by the news. “There’s always someone who is trying to help. . . . The world is full of doctors and nurses, police and firemen, volunteers, neighbors and friends who are ready to jump in to help when things go wrong.”