“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”— Robert James Waller, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter what we want. Once we get it, we want something else.”— Bryan Cogman, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“everybody wants to know you until they know you and you’re literally the opposite of the person they made up in their head.”— sunbathe, sunbathe.tumblr.com
“You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.”— Vivienne Westwood, thewwclub.com
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”— Ian McEwan, amazon.com
“Truth is too scarce to make societies secure. But, one thing is fairly secure, domestic peace will accurst; this is the riddle that informs all the wisdom of the world.”— William Shakespeare, Duke Vincentio, shakespeare.mit.edu
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.”— Marwa Rakha, amazon.com
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”— Yoko Ono, amazon.com
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”— Alexander Hamilton, twitter.com
“I personally hold that the classical spirit of challenge and self-discovery is a fundamental human trait. By showing how the risk-taking activity of individuals contributes to social benefits, economics helps societies to accommodate what Augustine called our ‘restlessness of heart.’ This is the bet…”— Edmund S. Phelps, firstthings.com
“We're not going to burn down the suburbs and live in lean-tos, we'd probably be happier if we did, but we're not going to.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.com
“What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's a really simple rule, they're either scared or in pain.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.com