“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”— Joyce Brothers, amazon.com
“People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.”— Marina Abramovic, newyorker.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
“Some people build fences to keep people out...and other people build fences to keep people in.”— August Wilson, 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
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.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
“Not for the first time, I sensed that those who know love and those who enjoy life are not the same people.”— Marcel Proust, 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
“But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.”— Keri Hilson, twitter.com
“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”— Henning Mankell, amazon.com
“Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, 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
“I want to be a force for real good…I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.”— John Coltrane, books.google.com.ph
“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