“You may compare yourself to others, and feel insecure about your own worthiness.Don’t be too hard on ‘others’ that you perceive to have ‘made it’ before you.There is no ‘other’ – we are all human and all have our own set of struggles, even when we ‘make it’, nothing is ever perfect and the illusion of the internet can be a mirage.”

“People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( “Le ciel c’est l’autre” )”

“Bukan doa orang lain yang membuat anda sukses atau gagal,tapi karena anda telah mengaminkannya, sadar atau tak sadar.”

“Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.”

“Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people’s luck.”

“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)”

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”

“There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness.”

“And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,’s what I’ll make, until my death.Helping people ‘d be as good,but I wouldn’t, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I’m just a bear,mauling at them, – like I care.”

“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

“Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.”

“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger’s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?”

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”