Every day we come across the words of others, whether they are a real-life person, living or not; or someone entirely fictional and even alien to you and me, but their words make them as real as the air we breathe and the blood which pumps through our veins. These words influence and shape us into the whole that is our individual self. Regardless if we agree or not with what had been said, those words shape and mold us. Here is a collection of such quotes that I have come across in my life, and the reflections, meditations, and emotional reactions to statements which have crossed and graced my life.