The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology.… Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh
They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore.
—Amanda Sun in Ink
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
—Rudyard Kipling
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
—Susan Griffin
The things that we love tell us what we are.
—Thomas Aquinas
Be who you are and be that well.
—Francis de Sales
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
—Oscar Wilde
We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
—Judith Martin
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
—Dick Cavett
There are more of them than us.
—Herb Caen
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
—Hermann Hesse
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
—Michel de Montaigne