„you’re not a bad person because you want to be yourself.“

— Jodi Picoult

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„Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.“
— Horace Mann
„I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing… forgiveness.“
— Louis Zamperini
„You can live your life two ways: You can use your language to manipulate. You can use it as a tool to get what you want. But the problem with that is that it assumes you know what you want, and that you're right. And that's a problem, because there's lots of things you don't know, and if you get what you want you may find that (A.) You didn't really want it, and (B.) that you're not the person that started the journey towards that. That happens a lot to people, especially when they use their language in a manipulative way.“
— Jordan Peterson
„We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want.“
— Jacque Fresco
„In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.“
— Joseph Campbell
„When you see anyone complainingof such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper,know that the complainant is bad-tempered,forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person,because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearingtowards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.“
— Rumi
„If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!“
— Brené Brown