“Every being in this world makes an impact on at least one person they encounter during their lifetime. You can change the course of someone’s life by just a kind word, a hateful one, or even by simply choosing not to say anything at all. Every choice you make has the potential to create a ripple eff…”— L.B. Simmons, amazon.com
“It’s not about the light — but how dark it makes you depending on where you stand.”— Ocean Vuong, thenation.com
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so importan…”— Joshua Foer, amazon.com
“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies,…”— Irvin D. Yalom, amazon.com
“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”— Marshall B. Rosenberg, amazon.com
“The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself — the specific tongue that we happen to speak — shapes our thoughts and perceptions. Those who believe in linguistic determinism, the strictest version, might argue that a culture that lacks a term for a certain emotion — a particular s…”— Emily Anthes, John Cassidy, newyorker.com
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”— C.G. Jung, amazon.com
“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”— Thomas Love Peacock, amazon.com
“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”— Eric Roth, amazon.com
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after a…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Yes, awe arises during the extraordinary: when viewing the Grand Canyon, touching the hand of a rock star like Iggy Pop, or experiencing the sacred during meditation or prayer. More frequently, though, people report feeling awe in response to more mundane things: when seeing the leaves of a Gingko t…”— Dacher Keltner, fulfillmentdaily.com
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence le…”— Gary Provost, amazon.com
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”— Seneca, amazon.com
“We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to bala…”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“My father used to say, 'Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.'”— Archbishop Desmond Tutu, marawwwrrrr.tumblr.com