Elona

“The experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”11”
― Nicholas A. Christakis, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

“If everybody fought for nothing but his own convictions, there wouldn’t be any wars,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn’t be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“To love a man for his virtues is paltry and human, it tells you; to love him for his flaws is divine. To love those who are worthy of it is self-interest; to love the unworthy is sacrifice. You owe your love to those who don’t deserve it, and the less they deserve it, the more love you owe them—the more loathsome the object, the nobler your love—the more unfastidious your love, the greater the virtue”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged