“We too need to stand the test, to endure one of the most horrifying collapses of humanity, which follows directly one of its most magnificent periods of advancement.”— Stefan Zweig, amazon.com
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”— Richard Curtis, The Doctor, Matt Smith, imdb.com
“This is the world, it’s pretty awful, and it’s pretty great at the same time.”— Conor Jordan, thecut.com
“The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.”— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“We're all the heroes of our own story. Without even realizing, we're probably the bad guy in someone else's.”— Sean Cummings, Leroy O'Neil, Zachary Ray Sherman, imdb.com
“How do you know the angel and the devil inside me aren't the same thing?”— Steven S. DeKnight, Douglas Petrie, Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox, imdb.com
“There are no heroes, no villains. Just people with different agendas.”— Douglas Petrie, Ben Urich, Vondie Curtis-Hall, imdb.com
“In order to feel good about anything there had to be some kind of struggle, a painful way to get to it.”— Sky Ferreira, dazeddigital.com
“The difference between happiness and unhappiness, both are necessary and useful. Even in the face of an illness that’s unsettling or worrying, this belief is absolutely unshaken.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Cherry blossoms fall, and for a twinkle there I have the will to live, but then Gomorrah calls.”— Xiu Xiu, open.spotify.com
“Anti-Muslim bigotry and radical Islam empower each other. Say no to both and challenge anti-Musim bigotry whenever and wherever you find it.”— Elliot Friedland, clarionproject.org
“The rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers' keeper because o…”— Martin Luther King Jr., nobelprize.org
“There is no success without the prospect of failure, no adventure without possible mishap.”— Edmund S. Phelps, firstthings.com
“I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can’t exist without the other.”— Donna Tartt, Boris Pavlikovsky, amazon.com
“Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other.”— Iain Reid, amazon.com