Politeness doesn't require actual humanity. It's just cultural ritual. Kindness means you actually care and have good intentions toward a person. It means you think about them as much as you think about yourself. —Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered More about this quote Tags: humanity politeness care ritual Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. —Evan Esar More about this quote Tags: money work widow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: love loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little? —Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway More about this quote Tags: right fairness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And here, after all that, is what I have come to believe about beauty: Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is beautiful. Softness and plumpness and roundness are beautiful. It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. The soft tummy of a woman is a miracle of nature. Beauty comes from tenderness. Beauty comes from variety, from specificity, from the fact that no person in the world looks exactly like anyone else. Beauty comes from the tragedy that each person's life is destined to be lost to time. —Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful More about this quote Tags: kindness beauty laughter nature variety specificity cellulite Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: magic habits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have not spoken to him for ten years, but I thought of him every single day. —Ruth Ware in Dark Wood More about this quote Tags: time memory thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back. —Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World More about this quote Tags: beauty time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone has their own problems. Some of them are awful and tragic, and if you knew what they were, you'd be grateful for the ones you have. —Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered More about this quote Tags: gratitude tragedy problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Getting what you want doesn't make you happy. Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition. —Katherine Center in Happiness for Beginners More about this quote Tags: happiness appreciation acquiring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we're stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be. —Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World More about this quote Tags: silence past looking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. —M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth More about this quote Tags: importance time self-worth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time healed, they said, but it wasn't true, or not completely. The first raw wound of loss had closed and silvered over, yes, but the scar it had left would never heal. It would always be there, aching and tender. —Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway More about this quote Tags: time pain loss healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens. —Emily Henry in A Million Junes More about this quote Tags: grief loss body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best. —Katherine Center in The Lost Husband More about this quote Tags: hope trouble tragedy trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email