“I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many [people] have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you a…”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous.”— Ricky Gervais, twitter.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
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 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
“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
“Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Most people are not bad. Oh, they do bad things sometimes, and everyone has a little badness in them, but very few people are unspeakably evil, and most of the bad things they do seem perfectly reasonable to them at the time. Perhaps they’re bored, or selfish, or greedy, but, for the most part, they…”— John Connolly, amazon.com
“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other more gently, with more love, tolerance and care.”— Marvin J. Ashton, goodreads.com
“People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.”— Milton H. Erickson, heatherhallhypnotherapy.co.uk
“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
“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.”— Gerard Way, twitlonger.com