“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”— Karl Marx , goodreads.com
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try t…”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.”— Paul Bowles, amazon.com
“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”— Mary Ellen Mark, maryellenmark.com
“A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.”— Chuck Close, esquire.com
“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I like messy people; those who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whose integrity is greater than any rule book and loyalty is thicker than blood.”— Jim Wern, jimwern.tumblr.com
“You strike me as a kind person. I hope your world is kind. By which I mean, I’ve heard we see the world not as it is but as we are. A saint sees a world of saints, a killer sees only murderers and victims.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me…I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that p…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions.”— Salman Rushdie, amazon.com
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“everybody wants to know you until they know you and you’re literally the opposite of the person they made up in their head.”— sunbathe, sunbathe.tumblr.com