Fake Collection

“Here’s a thought that haunts me: What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love?…”

— Donald Miller, amazon.com

“Our hearts will break – time and time and time again – over the course of our feeble existences. But they never break irreparably. They never shatter in ways we can’t fix. Our hearts are stronger than all of the things that ever break them, if we give them permission to be.”

— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com

“Don’t do it, don’t fool yourself, no matter what you tell yourself, you know what you are, says one voice. Take a chance, says the other voice. You’re lonely. You have to try. This is the voice he always ignores. This may never happen again, the voice adds, and this stops him. It will end badly, say…”

— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com

“When you get to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty or looks. You can lust after it, be infatua…”

— Lisa Unger, amazon.com

“#AltonSterling was the 154th black person killed by police this year (to date).”

— Samuel Sinyangwe, twitter.com

“Repeat after me: Police officer kills black person; hashtag is created; police go on leave; media begin blaming black person for death.”

— Broderick Greer, twitter.com

“Isaac Newton spent just as much time obsessively decoding biblical prophecies and predicting the end of the world as he did revolutionizing our understanding of physics. Florence Nightingale revolutionized the practice of health care even as she was racked with intense despair for much of her life.…”

— Eric Greitens, amazon.com

“I promise to be gentle with myself. Because in an argument with myself, I’ll always lose.”

— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com

“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. B…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“You tilt your head back. You breathe. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and daughters there are sharks in the water. But the only way to survive is to breathe deep and dive.”

— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com

“Our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”

— Fortesa Latifi, amazon.com

“In Pokémon GO Zapdos was found nesting near a power station. I dispense this advice with extreme caution as I do not want Pokémon GO players scaling power lines, but the nature of the beast is power.”

— Tim Horton, nowloading.co

“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”

— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com

“The Guest is inside you, and also inside me; you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. The blue sky opens out farther and farther, The daily sense of failure goes away, The damage I have done to mysel…”

— Kabir, amazon.com

“I thread the stars across the sky. I am the kiss of lovers' lips. I am the mortar and the stone. I am the song of my homeland. I am a dewdrop, a tear of the sun. I am a lily on a still pond. I am the son of harmony. I am a word of skill. I am the silence of things secret.”

— Ambergin and Cessair, amazon.com

“Memories demand attention, because memories have teeth.”

— Viola Davis, mic.com

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.”

— Donald Trump, books.google.dk

“Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.”

— Donald Trump, twitter.com

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

— Donald Trump, forbes.com

“If the only time you have a public opinion on civil violence in this country is when police face harm or sadly, death, then you come across as disingenuous, your intentions, suspicious, and your perspective, riddled with bias and prejudice. Empathy is not a limited resource.”

— Kovie Biakolo, facebook.com

“Mutual love, the crown of bliss.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

“Because I love you truly, because you love me, too. My very greatest happiness is sharing life with you.”

— Minna Thomas Antrim, amazon.com

“Deep. Real. Pure. Passionate. What real love should be.”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“Every breath that is in your lungs is a tiny little gift to me.”

— The White Stripes, amazon.com

“Listen, I love you. You make my world. And I’m here for you now, and forever. I’m here.”

— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com

“I’m not sure about what the future holds for me but I’m sure I want you in it.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.”

— Audre Lorde, amazon.com