Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
—Veronica Roth in Divergent
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
—Baruch Spinoza
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
—John Ruskin
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
—Flannery O'Connor
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
—Kelvin Throop III
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
—Ted Turner
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
—Anna Quindlen
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
—Mencius
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
—Joseph Joubert
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
—George Bernard Shaw
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
—H. L. Mencken
Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy, you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
—Robertson Davies
To strengthen the mind you must harden the muscles.
—Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important.
—Linda Marie Fedigan