“You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”— Red Haircrow, goodreads.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“Everything is dangerous… If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living...”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”— Edward Abbey, amazon.com
“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet, were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“I always marvel at the humans’ ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“None of us understand what we’re doing but we do beautiful things anyway.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”— Sogyal Rinpoche, amazon.com
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”— Barry H. Gillespie, goodreads.com
“Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”— J. K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com