“There are some things you don’t learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know.”— Emery Lord, amazon.com
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away.”— Andrew Boyd, amazon.com
“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting…”— Robert Glover, amazon.com
“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the ‘love’ of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”— Unknown, amazon.com
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”— Hannah Kent, amazon.com
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.”— Deborah Wiles, amazon.com
“Study the art of science. Develop your senses— especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”— Leonardo da Vinci, amazon.com
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com