“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by…”— Lisa Unger, amazon.com
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, amazon.com
“Every being in this world makes an impact on at least one person they encounter during their lifetime. You can change the course of someone’s life by just a kind word, a hateful one, or even by simply choosing not to say anything at all. Every choice you make has the potential to create a ripple eff…”— L.B. Simmons, amazon.com
“It’s not about the light — but how dark it makes you depending on where you stand.”— Ocean Vuong, thenation.com
“I thought you understood me, but it was just me misunderstanding you.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“The times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw as a sport as it gets.”— Kelly Slater, surf-quotes.tumblr.com
“I am a broken bell jar. I am Plath preheating the oven. I am all the things I once feared. Mostly, I am nothing.”— Anonymous, speaking-secrets.tumblr.com
“But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if conservatives recognized that most women…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com