Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.

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"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

Love

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

Self-awareness

"This love is the rose that blooms forever."

- Rumi

Love

"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."

- Rumi

Resilience

"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."

- Rumi

Resilience

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"Beauty is a gentle and loving heart."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"There is no greater beauty than kindness and compassion."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"Selflessness is the most beautiful trait one can possess."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"A kind heart can bring light to the darkest of places."

- Beauty and the Beast

Compassion

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

- Flora Edwards

Compassion