“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”— William James, amazon.com
“The things we lose are not losses – they are entryways. They are second chances. They are wake up calls. They are the world saying to us clearly and sharply: there is something else out there. And when it most feels like we're standing on the edge of some unknown abyss, we must recognize that we fee…”— Brianna Wiest, soulanatomy.org
“Many prevailing methods of choosing a romantic partner aim first to detect negative qualities: The checklist method focuses on superficial negative qualities, while seeking to identify major flaws offers more profound results. A third approach, discerning whether a partner will bring out the best in…”— Aaron Ben-Zeév, psychologytoday.com
“So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, 'till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.”— Iain Sinclair Thomas, amazon.com
“The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among th…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, businessinsider.com
“A careful reading of older texts, particularly those concerned with the universe itself, shows that the authors invoke divinity only when they reach the boundaries of their understanding. They appeal to a higher power only when staring into the ocean of their own ignorance. They call on God only fro…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, naturalhistorymag.com
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”— E.F. Schumacher, amazon.com
“More moving. Less complaining. More creating. Less scrolling. More documenting. Less spending.”— Anonymous, amazon.com
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduce…”— Henry David Thoreau, walden.org
“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“You work on yourself and you hope for the best, but you only get better — you don’t get perfect.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“There is just as much value in the negative space. Not every second of your life has to be filled. A packed agenda is not success. Living to work as opposed to working to live is not a quality of life. Things are not split into ‘times in which you’re doing something that other people can quantify’ a…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Here's a list of things to remember: Time heals. Mountain winds sound exactly like ocean waves. You are worth everything now. Walls can be destroyed. The sun always rises (and is always beautiful). Children know the answers. Trees can grow through rock. There is music in everything – like rain on ci…”— Victoria Erickson, rebellesociety.com
“Somehow, over the past few decades it's become conventional wisdom that we should put our faith in our feelings. That is, if we feel something—especially if we feel it intensely—then it deserves to be seen as valid, or truthful. The adage "trust your feelings" has by now become almost axiomatic. But…”— Leon Seltzer, psychologytoday.com
“I didn’t want to stay with my ex-husband, not at my core, even though whole swaths of me did. And if there’s one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it’s that you can’t fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god we must obey, a force that brings us a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“You don't need another human being to make your life complete, but let's be honest, having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters in your soul, but cracks to put their love into, is the most calming thing in this world.”— Emery Allen, goodreads.com
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choic…”— Shannon Alder, amazon.com
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.co.uk