"The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it."

“...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”

“My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.”

Source : "Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.”

“Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.”

“The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.”

Source : Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

“You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.”

“The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.”

“The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.”