reminders to not hold too tightly...

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
T.S. Elliot

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Gibran, Kahlil

Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
Garrison, Barbara

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Melville, Herman

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Rubin, Theodore Isaac

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Deshimaru, Taisen

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Gibran, Kahil

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind
Amiel, Henri Frederick

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
Keith, Sir Arthur

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Margaret of Valois

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

.Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet