“Afraid of dying, yes, but even more of not having lived, afraid of passing my days in a stupor, afraid of squandering my moment in the light.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“I also have another quality, and that is an unshakable hunger to know who I am, where I am, and into what sort of cosmos I have been so briefly and astonishingly sprung.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“'That's the universe unfolding," she told us, "right there in your hands. The same as in every cell of our bodies. Now why? That's the question I can't ever get behind. Why should the universe be alive? Why does it obey laws? And why these particular laws? For that matter, why is there a universe at…”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“Humans are winged creatures on some level, but we’re also trapped. We can fly, but we can’t.”— Donna Tartt, telegraph.co.uk
“The stars all have a purpose that benefits us, even though we may never see their true form or essence. They assist us with their light, even though that light—in of itself—is old, weary, and meaningless. While their precise nature is irrelevant, their impact is phenomenal. That is how I see humanit…”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized. Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is…”— fandomsandfeminism, fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.com
“I believe that theres is one story in the world, and only one… Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil… there is no other story.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I am trying to remember that these people who I don’t agree with – they are broken too.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you had to add something to humanity, what would your contribution be?”— Andrea Balt, nextavenue.org
“It is strange that we who are capable of so much suffering should inflict so much suffering.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“I can't stand moral absolutism. You know, there's always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife-- as if he obviously couldn't have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and then…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I'm not sure if people have become less interesting, or if I'm just less interested in people.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with passion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”— Yehuda Berg, values.com
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”— George Washington Carver, amazon.com
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com
“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy…”— Mitsugi Saotome, amazon.com
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”— Wilferd Peterson, amazon.com