25 Quotes by Valarie Kaur

The opposite of love is not rage. The opposite of love is indifference. Love engages all our emotions: Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger is the force that protects that which is loved. We cannot access the depth of loving ourselves or others without our rage.

Joy returns us to everything that is good and beautiful and worth fighting for. In joy, we see even darkness with new eyes.

I believe laboring in joy is the meaning of life.

His healing was a process of self-reconciliation, accepting the darkest parts of himself and integrating them into who he knew himself to be.

Stories that expand the collective we have the power to return us to one another.

When we are brave enough to sit with our pain, it deepens our ability to sit with the pain of others. It shows us how to love them.

Rather than taming public expressions of moral outrage, perhaps it is up to the rest of us to train our ears to “hear beyond hearing,” in the words of theorist Judith Butler, so that we can discern the truth of the pain of injustice and confront our own complicity and responsibility.

Grieving together, we ease each other’s suffering and come to know each other.

You don't need to know people in order to grieve with them. You grieve with them in order to know them.