“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.”
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