I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.
Stephen ChboskyBut right now Iām here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.
Stephen ChboskyIt's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
Stephen ChboskyIf the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.
Stephen ChboskyI've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.
Stephen Chbosky