This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: people poetry work divorce together apart connections Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery. —Rich Frye More about this quote Tags: awareness ignorance learning mystery habit comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music. —Reggie Watts More about this quote Tags: science art football sports high school Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. —Robert Brault More about this quote Tags: memory perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth. —Gayle Forman in Just One Year More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen―because you love each other. —Rainbow Rowell in Landline More about this quote Tags: love work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. —Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road More about this quote Tags: alone others loneliness people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You get through it, you just never get over it. —Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth More about this quote Tags: moving on healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: confidence validation approval attraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You ever have that feeling? Like you've known someone your whole life but you don't know them at all. —Ann Aguirre in Blue Diablo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guess you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't. —Sarah Mlynowski in Ten Things We Did More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give―and then realize that it still isn't what they need? —Jodi Picoult in The Pact More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. —Nicholas Sparks in Dear John More about this quote Tags: perspective regret journey Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you ask why I'm not interested in someone, I might say their nose is too big, or they don't know how to dress, or they're too thin or too fat or too plain. But the truth is, I only notice those things because of the real reason—that I'm just not feeling anything. But people don't want to hear that. They always want an explanation. So I have to come up with something concrete even though feelings aren't like that. If I did meet a guy and I felt happy with him for whatever reason, I wouldn't care what he wore or how tall he was or what he did for a living. But when I'm with someone and it just doesn't feel right, that's when I start noticing the bad haircut or uni-brow. And it's true that tomorrow I may go home with someone who you think is totally wrong for me. And the next day I might meet a perfectly nice guy who you think I should feel excited about, but I don't. But if I do go home with someone, it means for a change, something feels right. For a change, I'm feeling hopeful. I just want to feel happy when I'm with someone. Is that so wrong? —Caren Lissner in Starting from Square Two More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. —Emile Coue More about this quote Tags: change improvement better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email