We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about. —Nicola Yoon in The Sun Is Also a Star More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it's become my favorite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once. —Nicola Yoon in Everything More about this quote Tags: comfort hugs arms Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. —Will Schwalbe in The End of Your Life Book Club More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once. —Nicola Yoon in Everything More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's something about swimsuits that make you think you've got to earn the right to wear them. And that's wrong. Really, the criteria is simple. Do you have a body? Put a swimsuit on it. —Julie Murphy in Dumplin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was a grief-drenched day, the kind of day where the hours drag and dissolve into nothing all at once; the kind of day when you wake the next morning and think it was just a bad dream, until the grit in your eyes and the heaviness in your chest remind you otherwise. —Kelly Rimmer in Me Without You More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hope you find a love like that–one that is all-consuming and powerful that makes you feel like you're going slightly mad. And if you do find that love, embrace it. Hold onto it. When you give yourself over to love like that, your heart will get bruised. It will get battered. But you will also feel invincible and infinite. —Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? —Nicola Yoon in Everything More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm asking you to forget everything you know about true love. The real kind doesn't make you selfish and shortsighted. Real love makes you better than you ever knew you could be. —Leah Konen in The Romantics More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute. —Firesign Theatre More about this quote Tags: loneliness seeking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) he loses his balance for a moment, slips into being who he is, uses his poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead man. —Jack Spicer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself, all your words and actions define the world you want to live in. —Thaddeus Golas The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Yes, now. Now, please now, only now, not anything else only this now, and where are you and where am I and where is the other one, and not why, not ever why, only this now; and on and always please then always now, always now, for now always one now; one only one, there is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now . . . —Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls More about this quote Tags: connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As you think, you travel. As you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts; but you can endure and learn, accept and be glad. You will realize the vision of your heart, not the idle wish. You will gravitate towards that which you secretly most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision — your ideal. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email