“True that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Doubt is wisdom. People are dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“The longer people live, the more they learn to distinguish what's important from what's not.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free . . . They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Pop never forgot his people. Where some people saw hard rock kids, he saw precious jewels. He reminded me that diamonds are formed by pressure, covered in dirt, but when you polish them, they shine. Pop saw the shine in everyone that walked in his barbershop, he cut their hair, he listened to their…”— Jason Horwitch, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com
“Annalise: You know more about me than most people. Nate: That's sad because I don't know you.”— Tanya Saracho, Nate Lahey, Billy Brown, imdb.com
“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to . . . . Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“All he does is watch things happen and accept it all. I mean, occasionally he gives his own opinions, bu nothing very deep. Instead, he just broods over his love affair. He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something he decided to do himself, or tha…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Our differences should not divide us. Our differences should bring us closer as we admire our uniqueness as individuals and our diversity as humanity.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“If someone is different than you - see it as an invitation to learn about them instead of seeing it as a reason to distance yourself because they aren’t the same as you.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“As individuals each of us is extremely isolated, while at the same time we are linked by a prototypical memory.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom.”— Douglas Macarthur, americanrhetoric.com
“New and inexhaustible sources of general prosperity have been opened; the effects of distance have been averted by the inevitable genius of our people.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“Is it not true that many people do hide their feelings, and pretend to be quite different to what they are?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com