Magdalena Stones

“A human being, every human being, is complicated - layers upon layers of ideas, feelings, perceptions, recollections, reactions, desires and dreams. By placing us into boxes they are denying us our own truth. By placing others into boxes we are denying them their own truth. And so it goes.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“We live in an age in which there is too much information, less knowledge and even less wisdom. That ratio needs to be reversed. We definitely need less information, more knowledge, and much more wisdom.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Humans are by nature romantic creatures. By that I don't mean full of love: I mean that they like the idea of things more than the reality of them.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
― Claire Keegan, Foster