All quotes by author Jonathan Tropper“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when its true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesnt fade and the scars dont heal, and its too damned ...
“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to ...
All quotes from I Wrote This For YouMay you do the things you want to and always remember what it felt like when you were doing them.Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, dont be normal. Stri...
i have known the taste of salt water,and the smell of decaying forests,and the cracks in hundreds of sidewalks.i have loved the gas pedal,and the airport concourse,and the ever-changing time zones.in...
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”--Haruki Murakami“You rest, you rust.”--Oscar de la Renta“I love b...
All quotes by author David Foster Wallace“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and...
“Your epitaph will begin: “She redefined what it meant to be a good woman.” It will say: “She scaled mountains, in hiking boots and in heels. She started in her own backyard and then went all the way...
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about desp...
“Relationships are both wonderful and tricky. The wonderful traits of a person are all sparkly and shiny, and we are attracted to that. But the real work is learning to find good in the gnarly aspects...
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meaness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if t...
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”--Vincent Van Gogh“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same ...
“If there’s someone you absolutely miss, you might find yourself talking to them a lot in your mind, creating those fake conversations with them and you answer yourself in their voice in your head. M...
“Fear is the cheapest room in the houseI would like to see you livingin better conditions.”--Hafiz“Why did he write to her,“I can’t live without you”?And why did she write to him,“I can’t live withou...
if the horse that you rideis blind it’s goodthat it also be slow,and please stroke ita hundred more times than you wouldthe powerful dazzling one.to be generous is one thing,but there’s a clerk in so...
Life is the only wayto get covered in leaves,catch your breath on the sand,rise on wings;to be a dog,or stroke its warm fur;to tell painfrom everything it’s not;to squeeze inside events,dawdle in vie...
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth an...
"What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it--and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand."--Elsie de Wo...
"Whats for you wont pass you by."--Lillian Breed“You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run aroun...
I am running into a new yearand the old years blow backlike a windthat I catch in my hairlike strong fingers likeall my old promises andit will be hard to let goof what I said to myselfabout myselfwh...
All quotes from I Wrote This For YouUnderstand that, the prisons youve built are of your own design.Understand that, you should be the person you wanted to be when you woke up this morning.Understand...
All quotes by Ram Dass“Either you do it like it’s a big weight on you or you do it as part of the dance.”“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion — and where it isn’t, that’s wh...
"Can You imagine? For example, what the trees do not only do in lightening storms or the watery dark of a summers night or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now - whenever were...
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change her future by merely changing her attitude."--Oprah Winfrey“O! It’s nice to get up in the morning. But it’s nicer to stay in be...
in the sleepiness of night I feel like I can say anything. you feel good drunk in the dark. you feel good in my dreams. you are still swelling and ghosting while I am waiting for you. I’ve tried to g...
"Some of my best moments on earth have been spent with my dogs."--Oprah Winfrey“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”--Allen Ginsberg“We all basically have a lot of magic; it’...
sometimesyou have to takea step ortwoback, re-treattakea monthoffdon’tdo anythingdon’t want todo anythingpeace isparamountpace isparamountwhateveryou wantyou aren’t going to get it bytrying toohard.-...
“No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.”--Samuel Johnson“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”--Norman Vincent Peale...
I started this blog for myself to keep quotes that I loved, never expecting so many of you to find me here. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has left a comment or sent me an email, remind...
“Until I was 30, I dated only boys. I’ll tell you why: Men scared the sh*t out of me. Men know what they want. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn’t on the floor. Men buy new shamp...
“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do....
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