Razi

“There exist, he says, natural, vulgar, and pathological variants of this impulse, in addition to a higher form which is the only genuinely humane type. Its vulgar manifestation lacks all moral value, and can occur even among mindless animals. The less educated one is, the less familiar one is with the qualities of other places in the world: all the stronger is the attraction to the patch of land where one first saw the light of day. In this respect, Greenlanders and Laplanders, Samoyeds and Hottentots must be listed together with the cowherd on his Swiss Alpine meadow.”
― Albert Vigoleis Thelen, The Island of Second Sight

“Every interaction with another human being is a possible gateway to some new world or experience,”
― Matthew Hussey, Get the Guy

“This Harvard research provided further striking evidence that emotional stresses are inseparable from the physical states of our bodies, in illness and health.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“What do you think success is?" asked the boy.
"To love," said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse