“I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”— George Washington Carver, amazon.com
“This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I usually become a ghost to those who no longer deserve my time. I've never seen a point in explaining my absence to someone who failed to appreciate my presence. You don't owe any explanations to those who hurt you.’”— R.H. Sin, goodreads.com
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”— William James, goodreads.com
“And it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever witnessed. That a creature like you exists in my world.”— Nicole Torres, wnq-writers.com
“Unless you’re completely exploded, there’s always something to be grateful for.”— Saul Bellow, amazon.com
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”— John F. Kennedy, presidency.ucsb.edu
“It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the…”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“The desolate, deserted trees, The faded earth, the heavy sky, The beauties she so truly sees, She thinks I have no eye for these, And vexes me for reason why.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”— William James, goodreads.com