“Spend your life with people who make you happy.”
— Unknown
“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
“Notice the people who make an effort to stay in your life.”
— Unknown
“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time.”
— Christine Arylo
“I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.”
— Leonard Cohen
“You’re so obsessed with finding someone to love you because you can’t love yourself.”
— Unknown
It is not about the present although they are beautiful. It is about what behind them. We give what we have to show that we care and then we all share in the joy. And that joy can grow into hope. One house at a time and spread throughout the land.
“My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.”
— Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
— Neil Gaiman
“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop of your world.”
— Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time
“The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.”
— Unknown
