“Slowly losing friends is a part of growing up.”

“Failure is not the opposite of success, it is the part of success.”

Arianna Huffington (1950) Greek-American author and syndicated columnist

“Letting go is the easy part, it’s the moving on that’s painful.”

movie Grey's Anatomy

“I don't want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician

“They'd like to think for you and a part of you would like to let them.”

The Stoic Emperor

“Every flower and insect, every bird, and all the creatures that live upon the land and swim within the rivers and seas, are part of the Tree of Life. You are connected to the whole of life. Whatever happens to the myriad forms of life in the world around you, has a direct affect on you”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world - such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.”

Sören Kierkegaard book The Sickness unto Death