We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." —Sydney J. Harris More about this quote Tags: childhood responsibility adulthood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. —Kimberly Johnson More about this quote Tags: regret apology excuses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights. But on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones I've never gotten credit for. —Glenn Gould More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers. —Daniel Boorstin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had kept all these things neatly sorted and filed and labelled, it would save me a lot of trouble. However, it is a pleasure sometimes, when looking vaguely through a pile of old note-books to find something scribbled down, as: Possible plot—do it yourself—girl and not really sister—August— with a kind of sketch of a plot. What it's all about I can't remember now; but it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot, at least to write something else. —Agatha Christie in An Autobiography More about this quote Tags: writing organization piles plot Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal. —Mary Karr More about this quote Tags: reading presence drugs disassociation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: love others self self-love persuit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind. —Gayle Forman in Just One Day More about this quote Tags: feeling presence space absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: action life advice ownership self trust control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's how it is when a person develops an attraction toward someone. He's nowhere, then suddenly he's everywhere, whether you want him to be or not. —Colleen Hoover in Ugly Love More about this quote Tags: love perception desire attraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Love More about this quote Tags: awareness time experience speed maximizing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers. —Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You More about this quote Tags: questions relationships knowledge answers narcissism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go. —Jennifer L. Armentrout in Deity More about this quote Tags: hope time letting go Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you. —Aurora Rose Reynolds in Assumption More about this quote Tags: fear time good waiting crumbling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise. —Kim Harrison in Something Deadly This Way Comes More about this quote Tags: endings beginning disguise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email