In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

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This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love.
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LAUREN OLIVER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the w...
CHARLES EISENSTEIN What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself...
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER When we try to find the good in ourselves and others, we pull those good traits up out of hiding and...
EMILYANN GIRDNER We're LOVE! We came straight outta LOVE & that's where we're headed. From love to love - is what...
ABHISHEK KUMAR A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
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LOUISE MURPHY We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a...
NAJWA ZEBIAN I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are hear...
MATT BOMER Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It would be hard to quantify, but we'd experience significant congestion. Each of the tools we have ...
FRANK QUON Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to...
JONATHAN IVE Having the infrared data from Spitzer allows us to measure the star formation rates very accurately ...
DAVID KOO 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON What we do is we measure the response time to process one of these e-mail transactions for each one ...
ERIC RACHAL To loveres our theree...

Sometimes we get carried away with the fights we are having. Wit...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, an...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We are formed by dust, when life ends, we shall we return as dust to the ground.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
MIKE LOVE What is the world without wit? We should live to love, love to laugh, and laugh to live!
P. A. MONSON See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE We will rebuild because it is important to the community that we are here, ... People have not been ...
HAROLD ROBERTS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN For this reason, while we believe that many more people could benefit from taking aspirin, it is imp...
JEFFREY BERGER How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for ea...
C. JOYBELL C. Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen an...
CORY BOOKER WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS BONDING. Bonding is one of the most basic and foundational ideas in lif...
HENRY CLOUD Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...
CRAIG GROESCHEL For this reason, while we believe that many more people could benefit from taking aspirin, it is imp...
DR. JEFFREY BERGER Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see ...
MARTIN SCORSESE The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. T...
SARA WISEMAN A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images...
KEVIN SYSTROM All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; i...
HERMANN HESSE A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends...
BILL CLINTON The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controllin...
LAURA CHINCHILLA We learned how much we love each other (and) what we're doing in our family is good for us.
LORI GRIMES If we love each other without creating a race war, people wouldn't get hurt that much, and feelings ...
WERLEY NORTREUS . . .the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, ...
AMY TAN We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...
JONATHAN SACKS Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when peo...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand...
ELISABETH FOLEY Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL All men have a soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflec...
KOFI ANNAN Durable goods was June data, and what we really care about is July data, ... There is also this bear...
PETER MCTEAGUE You know when we are blessed when our love strengthens for each other, that’s how you know God has...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE We are made of spirit, mind, soul, and a little pixie dust.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's about creating strength in numbers, finding common ground and supporting each other.
JANE KIM When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
DEBASISH MRIDHA New Orleans is body and soul. The soul is the people and the body is the architecture, and you can't...
CAMILLE STRACHAN If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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LAUREN OLIVER Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anythi...
LAUREN OLIVER His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, mo...
LAUREN OLIVER I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have."
He cracks a smile then. He nudge...
LAUREN OLIVER They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, ove...
LAUREN OLIVER ....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other....
LAUREN OLIVER This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second ...
LAUREN OLIVER I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse l...
LAUREN OLIVER Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't re...
LAUREN OLIVER I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making m...
LAUREN OLIVER This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to beco...
LAUREN OLIVER Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease...
LAUREN OLIVER How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
LAUREN OLIVER My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some flop...
LAUREN OLIVER i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and...
LAUREN OLIVER I want to help you,' I say to Juliet, though I know that I can't make her understand, not like this....
LAUREN OLIVER And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand o...
LAUREN OLIVER Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long...
LAUREN OLIVER So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'

Kent does a little bow. 'You ...
LAUREN OLIVER I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
LAUREN OLIVER That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.
LAUREN OLIVER That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of...
LAUREN OLIVER I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in t...
LAUREN OLIVER And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.
LAUREN OLIVER The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler,...
LAUREN OLIVER The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I t...
LAUREN OLIVER No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world...
LAUREN OLIVER For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back,
easy and smiling aga...
LAUREN OLIVER The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one seco...
LAUREN OLIVER What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't...
LAUREN OLIVER I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tu...
LAUREN OLIVER This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
LAUREN OLIVER I wonder what Lena is doing now. I always wonder what Lena is doing. Rachel, too: both my girls, my ...
LAUREN OLIVER The dagger pin is all I have left. It is comfort and pain, both, because it reminds me of all I’ve...
LAUREN OLIVER This is how Tack and Raven work: It’s their private language of push and return, argument and conc...
LAUREN OLIVER Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like f...
LAUREN OLIVER

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

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In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

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