“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.”— Anne Morrow Lindberg, amazon.com
“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other more gently, with more love, tolerance and care.”— Marvin J. Ashton, goodreads.com
“If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”— Luna Adriana, goodreads.com
“Disasters happen all at once! Successes happen slowly and gradually and they are interrupted by disasters, but they continue despite them!”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Systemic inequality of opportunity will prevent the most promising future innovators from getting the opportunities they need to succeed.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I like people. 'Cause even when the situation's dire, it is only ever people who are able to inspire, and on paper, it's hard to see how we all cope. But in the bottom of Pandora's box, there's still hope, and I still hope 'cause I believe in people.”— Harry Baker, youtube.com
“Others live in poverty and ain't acknowledged properly. A proper poor economy where so many are proper poor, but while their needs are ignored the money goes to big wars. Origami armies unfold plans for paper planes and we remain imprisoned in our own paper chains, but the greater shame is that it a…”— Harry Baker, youtube.com
“Data is cold in a way that humans are not. And to really understand these statistics, and their impact on the real lives of real people, we need to find ways to listen to those people.”— John Green, youtube.com
“I think the reality is you can see that countries in the world that isolate themselves, it’s not good for their people.”— Tim Cook, wsj.com
“Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized. Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is…”— fandomsandfeminism, fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.com
“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Since there are now more people with a telephone than access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, this will shortly mean nearly everyone on our increasingly crowded planet will not be able to escape the inequality.”— Stephen Hawking, theguardian.com
“I have come to realize that any person who rejects me because of a chronic illness is not someone I want in my life. It is not the disorder or me that people are so put off by – it is what the external world has defined my disorder to be.”— Robyn Murning, thoughtcatalog.com