“2018 is about little victories. We’re not putting pressure on ourselves to become everything we’ve always wanted to be because nobody can do that in a year. Instead we’re focusing on making forward strides and we’re celebrating every single win no matter how small.”— @averagefairy, averagefairy.tumblr.com
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“Directly and indirectly, you’re responsible for other people’s lives, whether you like it or not.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Socialists must be in favor of an aristocratic form of government. We must have the best men for the job . . . In the dictator you must have a man who has not only the power to govern but the force of character to impose himself as dictator whether you like him or not.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“I think that this moment is important for awareness, for how parents are talking to their children, and how victims are processing their trauma, whether it be new or old.”— Taylor Swift, time.com
“Those who are extremely anxious wear themselves out and become in a sense their own executioners.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, goodreads.com
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it…”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.”— Alan Moore, en.wikiquote.org
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“It’s so difficult, isn’t it? To see what’s going on when you’re in the absolute middle of something? It’s only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others – The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”— Abraham Maslow, goodreads.com
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com