Author: Jennifer Sien

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather, it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.” – Erich Fromm

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin

“It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” – Aldous Huxley

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – Harper Lee

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” – John Steinbeck