If you wished to be loved, love. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: love curiosity foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation–I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out. —Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things More about this quote Tags: life judgement money compassion self-pity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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