“I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it’s uncool. It’s uncool to have passion. It’s so much easier to lose when you’ve shown everyone how much you don’t care if you win or lose. It’s mu…”— Tom Hiddleston, bustle.com
“You’ve got a good heart I like that about you. You’re always in trouble and I like that too.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org
“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequen…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I loved her. Not simply, certainly not passively, but clearly, specifically; I loved her…She was kind but would not accept confusion. She was beautifully warm… Her heart was coloured by a deep gentleness; She was true.”— Robert Creeley, thelovejournals.com
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it. I know I’ll never jump again.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”— Shana Abe, amazon.com
“If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“It’s unfortunate, and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”— Emma Thompson, goodreads.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
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ’”— Ellen Goodman, huffingtonpost.com
“I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.”— Egon Schiele, egonschiele.net
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself, and be nice to myself.”— Daul Kim, telegraph.co.uk