“What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.”— Chester Bennington, goodreads.com
“I will repeat what I once said to Guillaume Apollinaire: "For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.”— Salvador Plascencia, amazon.com
“It’s the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.”— Dorothy Koomson, amazon.com
“The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. But…for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”— Yehuda Berg, goodreads.com
“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us. Whether individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com