You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble? ― J.K. Rowling

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We are all born mad. Some remain so. ― Samuel Beckett

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I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ― Walter Tevis

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You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can. ― Roy T. Bennett

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None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith. ― Paulo Coelho

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. ― Roy T. Bennett

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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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