“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.”— Milton H. Erickson, facebook.com
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“When one personality meets another for the first time, there is a period of mutual examination on the intuitive level of empathy and identification.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr., amazon.com
“Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself. Because I have chosen to dwell in a place you can’t see.”— Rumi, 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
“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”— Hannah Kent, amazon.com
“I don’t think I do understand people very well. I only know whether I like — or dislike — them.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”— Malcolm X, malcolmx.com
“I’m sorry your heart was broken. I’m sorry you thought they were better than they actually were. I’m sorry that they didn’t love you as much as you thought they did. I’m sorry you wake up at night, unable to breath, drowning in a pool of your own tears. I’m sorry you feel worthless and sad . I’m sor…”— @xiat-fever (via XIAT-FEVER), xiat-fever.tumblr.com
“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”— Anna Funder, amazon.com