Category: Life Quotes

“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

“Those who do not weep, do not see.” – Victor Hugo

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” – Epictetus

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” – Lemony Snicket

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Everyone behaves badly….Give them a proper chance.” – Ernest Hemingway

“One is never fortunate or as fortunate as one imagines.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” – Carl Sagan

“In time, we often become one with those we once failed to understand.” – Patti Smith

“Compassion is not a relationship between healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we present with the darkness of others.” – Pema Chodron