Friends

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gave value to survival.

(http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/08/c-s-lewis-four-loves-friendship/ ) 

Xenoicide: Ender Series, book 3

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

Sick systems

People rarely get stuck because of their vices. They're usually caught by their virtues.

(http://issendai.livejournal.com/573443.html)