Quote by Robert Stone

“The world didn’t matter. This was us. This was our fuckedupness learning how to live without guilt and shame.”

— Pepper Winters

“It's our own shitty thoughts and attitudes that cause us to have a shitty life in what often looks like a shitty world.”

— Jerry Jampolsky

“Despite all that I had taught, I had learned nothing about the world.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and…

— Victoria Holt

“Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we’d been taught by every person who’d ever used us for their own benefit.”

— Laura Wiess

“And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make…

— Gregory David Roberts

“We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can…

— Marguerite Bennett

“If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly.”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“some people learned only from what they experienced personally.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“Whatever we might wish to believe about ourselves, we are only the result of how others have treated us.”

— Rachel Cusk

“It was always easier to believe the bad stuff people thought about you than the good.”

— Barbara Freethy