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

far away in the sunshine

Some people turn sad awfully young.

No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way.

 They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer,

 as I said get sadder younger than anyone else in the world.

 I know, for I’m one of them.

- Unknown

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons.

And maybe we’ll never know most of them.

 But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from,

we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.

 And we can try to feel okay about them.

– Stepehn chbosky ,The Perks of Being A Wallflower.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

 That is why so many people live such an unreal life.

 -- Hermann Hesse

Do one thing everyday that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever happens, I’ll love you just as I do now until I die.

– gone with the wind

But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

― Khaled Hosseini

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

 I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them,

and try to follow where they lead.

– Louisa May Alcott

We make our lives out of chaos and hope.

– Bones

I am learning to see.

 I don’t know why it is,

 but everything enters me more deeply

and doesn’t stop where it once used to.

– Rainer Maria Rilke.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being

-Ralph Waldo Emerson