"The human spirit is stronger than anything that could happen to it."
- C. C. Scott
"The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone."
- Nick Hornby
"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
- Gabriel García Márquez
"It’s amazing how we blame ourselves. It’s probably just human nature to try to make sense of things .. random things. I think the scariest part is realizing that sometimes bad things just happen, no reason, no purpose; they just occur .. and we are left to pick up the pieces. I guess that’s what we’re doing all the time .. just .. picking up the pieces .. the best we can!"
- ~ Felicity S1E8 (Drawing the line 2)
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope"
- Samuel Johnson
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."
- Ralph Nichols
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"
- Charles Dickens