The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
-Aristotle
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
-Jodi Picoult
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
-Anaïs Nin
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan