people, i have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow.

But this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

 – Leo Tolstoy

It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it – some people,

 as far as your senses are concerned just feel like home.

 – Nick Hornby

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.

You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you,

 buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

-- Insurgent

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.

-- Herman Hesse

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring,

murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude;

to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

– The Awakening

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything.

And between the two my life flows.

 – Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go.

 And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

― John Green

She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad.

The kind of sad that just takes time.

– Stephen Chbosky



Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object.

– Hermann Hesse