Latest Quotes

“Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are.”

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You weren’t ready for the love I was to give, and I wasn’t patient enough to teach you the lessons you needed to learn for yourself.”

— Nathalie Marie, This Is Me Finally Closing The Chapter Of Us

“Being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances.”

— Julie K. Norem, goodreads.com

“In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances, risks, and opportunities.”

— Julie K. Norem, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking: Using Defensive Pessimism to Harness Anxiety and Perform at Your Peak by Julie K. Norem (15-Aug-2002) Paperback

“Positive experiences can also be used to soothe, balance, and even replace negative ones. When two things are held in mind at the same time, they start to connect with each other. That’s one reason why talking about hard things with someone who’s supportive can be so healing: painful feelings and me…”

— Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain

“It‘s a curious fact, because Friday is a day of work and Sunday is a day for pleasure, so you would expect people to enjoy Sunday more, right? But we don’t. It’s not because we really like being in the office and can’t stand strolling in the park and having a lazy brunch. We prefer Friday to Sunday…”

— Tali Sharot, The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

“I don’t think the kind of woman who would considering marrying you would care about your hair once she finds out about your personality.”

— David Shapiro, Supremacist

“I liked when she touched me.”

— David Shapiro, Supremacist

“This year I am going to shed my old skin. I’m going emerge in a body your fingers will not have touched. I won’t be yours anymore. I will belong only to myself.”

— Tina Tran, Out of the Ruins

“Your laughter became my favorite song.”

— Tina Tran, Out of the Ruins

“Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone.”

— Tina Tran, Out of the Ruins

“I like birthdays. I like them more for other people, but I’m glad we celebrate them. At the heart of it is the opportunity to tell someone I’m glad that you were born, which is also to say I’m glad that you’re alive. Those are powerful statements. The world would be a different place if we lived tha…”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“The stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE

“We break in different ways in this life, all of us eventually.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that i…”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“Love is a choice as much as it is magic. Magic comes in moments, but choices stretch out over time. We make them new each morning.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“Don’t give up. Don’t give up on your story. Don’t give up on the people you love. Hope is real. Love is real. It’s all worth fighting for.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people, and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“The best music is the kind that moves you, reminds you you’re alive, takes you on a journey.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we’re called home.”

— Jamie Tworkowski, If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For