A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night. —Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir More about this quote Tags: love time perception happiness summer distance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave. —Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir More about this quote Tags: love loneliness compassion familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them. —Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir More about this quote Tags: fear friendship loss growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most effective instrument to overcome one's laziness in work is the force of habit. —Carl Hilty More about this quote Tags: work habit laziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Peace is only a hair's breadth away from war. —Carl Hilty More about this quote Tags: war peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever the philosophers may say, it remains true that, from the first hour of man's waking consciousness until that consciousness ceases, his most ardent desire is to be happy, and that the moment of his most profound regret is when he becomes convinced that on this earth perfect happiness cannot be found. —Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life More about this quote Tags: philosophy happiness desire consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds. —Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life More about this quote Tags: virtue health soul experience happiness enjoyment art work wealth honor philanthropy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it. —Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life More about this quote Tags: silence happiness bitterness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand. —Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't believe in soul mates, but there's an understanding between us that I just haven't felt before, or at least, not for a long time. —Paula Hawkins in The Girl on the Train More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later. —Tracee Ellis Ross More about this quote Tags: wisdom perspective choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. —An English Professor More about this quote Tags: humor language paper Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. —Dan Quayle More about this quote Tags: humanity space science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us. —Abbi Glines in Simple Perfection More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If someone called me chubby, it would no longer be something that kept me up late at night. Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me. —Mindy Kaling in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email