“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, amazon.com
“Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.”— Marwa Rakha, amazon.com
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world...”— Nelson Mandela, db.nelsonmandela.org
“We’re so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.”— Sandra Dallas, amazon.com
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.”— Noam Chomsky, goodreads.com
“As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.”— Prince, amazon.com
“Don't waste your time explaining: people only hear what they want to hear.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amazon.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
“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.”— Frank Zappa, brainyquote.com
“Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated…”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“...you’re too good for this world, and because of that, the world will eventually crush you.”— Paul Auster, amazon.com
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”— Pablo Picasso, simple.wikiquote.org