“Salvation is ours through the redemption of others”— Dewayne Jones, Joe Carroll, James Purefoy, imdb.com
“I often forget other people have limitations. It’s so sad.”— Stephen Engel, Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com
“Humans don’t survive alone in nature; they die — and as a result, we are all hardwired to belong to groups. But the only way to guarantee membership in a group is to be needed by it, so being unneeded can feel catastrophic.”— Sebastian Junger, nationalreview.com
“You don’t get to choose who handles your heart. There are simply people who were born with it in their teeth. When you meet them, it is best to build a bomb shelter.”— Tara Hardy, thelovejournals.com
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.”— Albert Bandura, en.wikiquote.org
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”— Cheryl Rainfield, amazon.com
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr., amazon.com
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com