“The power to heal is all in the hug.”

“Each of you are a voice. Together we are a choir, a powerful choir of change that circles the globe with love.”

“I already know sorrow. Today I choose joy.”

“The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.”

“Its okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But its vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.”

“Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.”

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”