“People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are.”

“Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.”

“Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”

“My roots are ready, but I’ll manage to grow only with the help ofothers. Not just you or J. or my wife but people I’ve never met”

“Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them”

“when you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”