“Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.”— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com
“Empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to us. Compassion is the willingness to be open to this process.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“never, adv.: I use this to mark my intentions; I cannot guarantee it or its opposite with absolute certainty.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Letting go is never easy. There is not short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It's not easy and it's likely to hurt, but it is for the best.”— Steve Maraboli, twitter.com
“Now people are books to me. I read them from cover to cover and toss them aside. I devour them, one after the other. And the more I read, the more insatiable I become. There is no limit to it.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“There are some experiences in life they haven’t invented the right words for.”— Lisa Kleypas, amazon.com
“You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess. When you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“I lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can’t tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it.”— Kay Redfield Jamison, amazon.com
“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our t…”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“I’m naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”— Anne Michaels, amazon.com