“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“The scariest thing about the world is knowing it goes on when you’re not there.”— Eric Kahn Gale, amazon.com
“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”— Ellen Glasgow, realmoney.thestreet.com
“Amongst some of the Old Soul's greatest achievements in life include the ability to live with inner peace, even amid the troubles of life. As all is passing, the Old Soul understands the importance of non-attachment to physical and immaterial things.”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“I've learned that just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that's not a reason to sacrifice your independence.”— Taylor Swift, nydailynews.com
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, relevantmagazine.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com