Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: love hope courage nourishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. —Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller More about this quote Tags: love hate forgiveness suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid. —Sue Monk Kidd in The Secret Life of Bees More about this quote Tags: life fear living death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end. —Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More More about this quote Tags: hope time summer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Relationships always started with that heady, swoonish period, where the other person is like some new invention that suddenly solves all life's worst problems, like losing socks in the dryer or toasting bagels without burning the edges. At this phase, which usually lasts about six weeks max, the other person is perfect. But at six weeks and two days, the cracks begin to show; not real structural damage yet, but little things that niggle and nag. Like the way they always assume you'll pay for your own movie, just because you did once, or how they use the dashboard of their car as an imaginary keyboard at long stoplights. Once, you might have thought this was cute, or endearing. Now, it annoys you, but not enough to change anything. Come week eight, though, the strain is starting to show. This person is, in fact, human, and here's where most relationships splinter and die. Because either you can stick around and deal with these problems, or ease out gracefully, knowing that at some point in the not-too-distant future, there will emerge another perfect person, who will fix everything, at least for six weeks. —Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby More about this quote Tags: love relationships perfection problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: silence time words perception communication pausing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: morning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. —Art Buchwald More about this quote Tags: world satire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. —Carl von Clausewitz More about this quote Tags: surprise secrecy speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One fails forward toward success. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: success failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: humor children nature jokes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. —Toni Morrison More about this quote Tags: memory water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. —Novalis More about this quote Tags: life meaning art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. —Peter Max More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. —Jackie Kennedy More about this quote Tags: perception animals speed camels elephants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email