“Holding two incompatible ideas in your head at the same time and accepting both of them--that's the best of being human. Yes, no, good, bad, life, death.”— Jocelyn Bioh, Natasha Lyonne, Ruth Brenner, Elizabeth Ashley, imdb.com
“Life will be easier for those who know when to behave as a serpent, and when to behave as a dove.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“IT'S OKAY to be sad. IT'S OKAY to feel pain. IT'S OKAY to be vulnerable. We are made to have emotions. Don't be afraid to let it out.”— Nadine Lustre, instagram.com
“The most important thing to develop in human beings is a sense of love, and an understanding of unconditional love. I’m not talking about the love towards a specific person, but love in a general sense; for life, for the planet, for purely existing.”— Marina Abramovic, thoughteconomics.com
“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“You can’t spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry they didn’t thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the fucking door.”— Jenji Kohan, Natalie 'Fig' Figueroa, Alysia Reiner, amazon.com
“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“You’re a beautiful combination of stardust and ocean waves, you are human and it’s okay to mess up.”— Katherine Murphy, katherineannemurphy.com
“I feel a lot of things. I don’t know anything. I am scared. Sometimes I am filled with joy. I am worried about the world. I am just trying to be a person.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.”— Cecelia Ahern, amazon.com
“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it’s okay. It’s okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It’s part of being human.”— Frank Warren, amazon.com
“Underneath the emotional skin that we create and show to the world, we are all very different. We are differently broken, semi-functional, rusted-out love machines.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Habits are not crutches; habits are roads we have paved for ourselves. When we are old, and if we have done a good job, the roads last and make the remaining time useful: we got where we want to go, and without the delays we used to have when we were young.”— Robert Coles, amazon.com
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“We wish to talk to each other about life and death, about love, despair, loss, and innocence. We sense that in order to live together we must learn to speak of peace, of history, of meaning and values. The big words.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com