💬 Quotes

"It’s not my job to make things easy for you. It’s my job to help you learn how to handle things."

"We were sort of like the cactus. We ate funny stuff and drank brackish water and lived on the fringe of civilization."

"To understand is to forgive, even if it is yourself that needs forgiving."

"The gods do not answer. They only wait for us to stop asking and start acting."

"You don't have to be a god to be wrong, and you don't have to be human to be right."

"I am not a weapon anymore. I am a person, and I am tired of being used to solve problems that cannot be solved with a strike."

"Every life is a tragedy, because every life ends, and every life is a comedy, because while it lasts, it is so absurdly important."

"We are all of us alone, except when we reach out across the impossible distance to touch another mind."

"Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you are family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything—even die."

"If you want to educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you want to educate a nation, you must educate women."

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

"We don’t want your money. We want your help to build a school."

"The only way to fight the plague is with common decency."

"There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise."

"All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences."

"It comes to this: that the only way to realize one's own freedom is to be able to say no."

"I wondered if the moon was the same one he was seeing, and somehow, that made me feel better."

"The moon is the same size no matter where you are."

"It’s hard to let go of something you never really had, but it’s even harder to hold on to something that’s slipping away."

"Maybe we were under the same sky, but we were looking at different stars."