“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”— José N. Harris, amazon.com
“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting…”— Robert Glover, amazon.com
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”— George S. Patton, amazon.com
“Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“In any dispute, each side thinks it’s in the right and the other side is demons.”— Steven Pinker, nytimes.com
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”— Gloria Steinem, ec.europa.eu
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”— Martin Luther King Jr., goodreads.com
“The sign of a beautiful person is that he always sees beauty in others.”— Omar Suleiman, goodreads.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
“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
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com