“A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flav…”— George Carlin, bohology.tumblr.com
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, globalcitizen.org
“Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the wor…”— David W. Orr, amazon.com
“I like to sit at the airport. I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future i…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Well, I think ‘likability’ is an overused word. I don’t watch people ’cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different … Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.”— Louis C.K., vulture.com
“It seems like the better it gets, the more miserable people become. There’s never a technological advancement where people think, ‘Wow, we can finally do this!’ … And I think a lot of it has to do with advertising. Americans have it constantly drilled into our heads, every fucking day, that we deser…”— Eric Spitznagel, vanityfair.com
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.”— Adam Rex, amazon.com
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”— Garrison Keillor, amazon.com
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com