“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
“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.”— Hunter S. Thompson, bankrate.com
“I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com
“I always marvel at the humans’ ability to keep going. They always manage to stagger on even with tears streaming down their faces.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.”— Charlotte Eriksson, charlotteeriksson.com
“You strike me as a kind person. I hope your world is kind. By which I mean, I’ve heard we see the world not as it is but as we are. A saint sees a world of saints, a killer sees only murderers and victims.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”— Plato, amazon.com
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Human beings act very much like storms when there’s something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before - the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com