“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”— Marion Cotillard, vogue.com
“Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”— Michelle Williams, elle.com
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.”— Robert Wilson Lynd, books.google.com.ph
“To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I’m not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or…”— Amy Poehler, elle.com
“My father took me aside one day soon after and told me this: The things you do in your twenties are just things you do. But as you approach thirty what you do starts to become who you are. And there are some things you do not want to be forever.”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“I no longer think she’s just being nice. She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”— William James, amazon.com