“7.5 Billion people in the world and you let the opinion of 1 stop your good energy? You're better than that.”— Eric Thomas, twitter.com
“I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.”— George R. R. Martin, Jamie Lannister, amazon.com
“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”— Brené Brown, twitter.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
“There are always emotions hidden behind 'I don't care' and pain behind 'it's okay.'”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“...how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“...it's pretty rare to find someone you actually like to be with in this world. There are a lot of annoying people out there.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“...they were different people together in daylight than they were alone in the dark.”— Joseph Heller, amazon.com
“Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot talk, so I listen very well. I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another’s conversations constantly. It’s like being a passenger in yo…”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“It's hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.”— Nick Burd, amazon.com
“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”— Irving Stone, amazon.com
“People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.”— Keri Hilson, twitter.com
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shake…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com