“She smiled at me with such merriment of recognition, and such a yearning to be recognised in return, that you would think this was a moment granted to her when she was let out of the shadows for one day in a thousand.”— Alice Munro
“Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why?”— Csaba Gabor-B.
“People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.”— Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“The story of a man’s soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation”— Mikhail Lermontov
“Rich is the man who sees value in every person, even if there is none to be found.”— Joanna Davidson Politano
“The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people.”— Father Brown
“Loving yourself is the first step towards knowing what you would and wouldn’t take from people – it determines not just the way people treat you but the relationships you keep in the first place”— Mr Imbuya
“At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me”— Nicholas Sparks
“Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!”— Robert Tew
“Trust is so valuable. It’s sometimes hard to gain, but so easy to lose. One must always be careful about trusting another, but there are times where people are too careful or too afraid & forget how to open up to those who won’t do any harm. Choose wisely who you trust, but don’t worry too much. Disappointment occurs, but life goes on”— Emily Gabriela Vira
“I don’t admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.”— Donna Lynn Hope
“Some people embrace their gifts with gratitude. Others have no use for them and can think only of overcoming their weaknesses. Only their defects interest and challenge them. Thus those who hate people may seek them out. Misanthropes often practice psychiatry. The shy become performers. Natural thieves look for positions of trust. The frightened make bold moves.”— Saul Bellow
“What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over.”— Henry Miller
“Politeness, delicacy [and] decency … are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.”— John Adams
“What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn’t see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little–if any–recourse for finding a way around it.”— Alexandra Bracken