"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
— Anaïs Nin

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."
— Oprah Winfrey (The Uncommon Wisdom Of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words)

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."
— Charlie Tremendous Jones

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
— Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point)

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
— Aldous Huxley

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
— Mother Teresa

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You)

"Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
— Neil Gaiman

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
— John Steinbeck

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day, For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things."
— St. Paul, Epistle to the Philippians, Chapter 4, Verses 4-8

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
— George Eliot

"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."
— Anaïs Nin

"Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it."
--Morrie Schwartz"
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson)

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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— Abraham Joshua Heschel

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you."
— Elie Wiesel

"I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions."
— Elie Wiesel (Night)

"Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before."
— John Wooden

"We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both."
— Angela Thomas

"I made a conscious decision to believe. Every day. I keep deciding to believe."
— Angela Thomas

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

"We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE."
— Max De Pree (Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community)

"Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise."
— Max De Pree (Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community)

"Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good."
— Max De Pree (Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community)

"Most problems in life are not solved merely by correction."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"In every moment...we choose to see others either as people like ourselves or as objects. They either count like we do or they don't."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"People whose hearts are at war toward others can't consider others' objections and challenges enough to be able to find a way through them."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"If we have deep problems, it's because we are failing at the deepest part of the solution. And when we fail at this deepest level, we invite our own failure."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"...no conflict can be solved so long as all parties are convinced they are right. Solution is possible only when at least one party begins to consider how he might be wrong."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"So if we are going to find lasting solutions to difficult conflicts or external wars we find ourselves in, we first need to find our way out of the internal wars that are poisoning our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward others. If we can't put an end to the violence within us, there is no hope for putting an end to the violence without."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"...when I betray myself, others' faults become immediately inflated in my heart and mind. I begin to 'horribilize' others. That is, I begin to make them out to be worse than they really are. And I do this because the worse they are, the more justified I feel."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"There is a question I have learned to ask myself when I am feeling bothered about others: am I holding myself to the same standard I am demanding of them?"
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"The more sure I am that I'm right, the more likely I will actually be mistaken. My need to be right makes it more likely that I will be wrong! Likewise, the more sure I am that I am mistreated, the more likely I am to miss ways that I am mistreating others myself. My need for justification obscures the truth."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"...whenever i dehumanize another, I necessarily dehumanize all that is human---including myself."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)

"But like many who are lonely, I was more preoccupied with others than were those who lived to socialize...Everyone I hated was always with me, even when I was alone. They had to be, for I had to remember what and why I hated in order to remind myself to stay away from them."
— Arbinger Institute (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict)