“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”
– Arundhati Roy
“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
– Sir James Jeans
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
– Goethe
“True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“I play the unloved … people like us, the inside-out people, who live their lives as an experiment, not as a formula.”
– John Hurt
“People know more than you think they do, but less than they think they do.”
– Unknown, reddit
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
– Maya Angelou
“Nirvana is the condition that comes when you are not compelled by desire, by fear or by social commitments – when you hold your center and act out of there.”
– Joseph Campbell
“I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”
– Boris Pasternak
“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”
― Meša Selimović
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“There is something in personal love, caresses, and the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship, that does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world.”
– Walt Whitman
“I’m not interested if you’ve stood with the great. I’m interested if you’ve sat with the broken.”
– Unknown