“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times t…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important p…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“OLD LOVE is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise.”— Eve Pell, nytimes.comTagged: Love, Relationships, romance, Dating, Marriage
“I cannot regret that when I look at my husband I still feel the same quickening of desire that I felt 12 years ago when I saw him for the first time, standing in the lobby of my apartment building, a bouquet of purple irises in his hands.”— Ayelet Waldman, nytimes.comTagged: Love, Relationships, romance, Dating, Marriage
“I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.”— Ayelet Waldman, nytimes.comTagged: True Love
“ya know what’s kind of weird? some people name cats ‘whiskers.’ that’s a cat’s body part. that’s so wild. i’m gonna name my son leg.”— hatchibomitar, hatchibomitar.tumblr.comTagged: LOL, Funny, Cat
“We spend so much time begging for those who wouldn’t blink twice at the thought of you. Cherish those who are there by choice, and not there because you chased them every time they decided to escape.”— brklynbreed, brklynbreed.tumblr.comTagged: Relationships, Unrequited Love, Self Worth, Dating
“The poet keeps the image from becoming motionless.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Word & Image, Keep The Truth Flowing
“Our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Nostalgia, Emotion, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“At times when we believe we are studying something, we are only being receptive to a kind of daydreaming.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Daydreaming, studying, Learning, How We Learn
“The image offered us by reading the poem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it exp…”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Expression Creates Us
“Images touch us at the deepest place of existence and remake the world again and again.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Photography, Imagination, Make It New
“You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life.”— Eliza Engellenner, facebook.comTagged: Self Worth, Relationships, Dating
“At your best you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Unrequited Love, Self Worth
“Don’t underestimate the power of another human being to lift you to the highest heaven, or cast you to the lowest hell.”— Bruce Adler, facebook.comTagged: Philosophy, Relationships
“Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”— Rachel Naomi Remen, amazon.comTagged: Healing, Letting Go, Becoming, On Becomig
“You keep making poetry out of people who never stayed as if all the pretty words in the world can cover up the heartache.”— Genefe Navilon, letters-to-the-sea.tumblr.comTagged: Heartache, Heart Break, Pain, Love, poem
“We need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.”— Malala Yousafzai, themarysue.comTagged: Islamophobia, Education, Ignorance
“I wish George Washington could visit our time and punch Donald Trump in the face.”— Anonymous, history-jokes.tumblr.comTagged: LOL, Donald Trump, Funny
“Funny how you repeatedly hear people using their right to free speech to defend their right to hate speech.”— Anonymous, theguardian.comTagged: Freedom of Speech, Hate, racism, Sexism, Homophobia
“What I do not accept, however, is that it is all right for people to make comments ranging from "a bit sexist but generally harmless" to openly sexually aggressive. That it is something that "just happens". Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, rol…”— Lauren Mayberry, theguardian.comTagged: Free Press, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual Harassment, Online Culture
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I'm alive.”— Richard Siken, poeticfuck.blogspot.dkTagged: Love, Poetry, Sex, Passion
“We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”— Yasmin Mogahed, facebook.comTagged: Letting Go, Holding On, Let Go
“Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you?”— Richard Siken, poeticfuck.blogspot.dkTagged: Love, Poetry, Stars
“I, right now, am in no place to forgive anyone without causing harm to myself.”— Alexis Smithers, wordsdance.comTagged: forgiveness, Self love
“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”— Madeline L’Engle, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Let Go, Learning To Let Go