“Never place your trust in us. We're only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you.”— Dan Dietz, Kath Lingenfelter, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“We humans are alone in this world for a reason, We murdered and butchered anything that challenged our primacy.”— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com
“Much of my education has been about grasping nuance, shades of gray. Resisting the urge to oversimplify the complexity of human motivation. This year has taught me that, actually, a lot of what really matters comes down to good people and bad people. And these are bad people.”— Susan Hennessey, twitter.com
“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“We humans might have evolved to far. The price of being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’ worth of darkness.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”— St. Thérèse of Lisieux, twitter.com
“Compassion, social intelligence, decisiveness, patience, wisdom. These are all qualities found in elephants and not found in the people allowing them to be killed for trophies.”— Ellen Degeneres, twitter.com
“From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”— Adam Savage, menshealth.com
“Life will be easier for those who know when to behave as a serpent, and when to behave as a dove.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“You can be American, Canadian, Isreali, or Iranian but no man can put a border around who you really are.”— Jim Carrey, twitter.com
“Somewhere someone thinks they love someone else exactly like I love you. Somewhere someone shakes from the ripple of a thousand butterflies inside a single stomach. Somewhere someone is packing their bags to see the world with someone else. Somewhere someone is reaching through the most terrifying f…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“I am convinced that different people awaken different beasts in you.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“my dear, we are all made of water. it’s okay to rage. sometimes it’s okay to rest. to recede.”— Sanober Khan, amazon.com
“But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”— Christopher Poindexter, instagram.com
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.com