Latest Quotes

“Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.”

— Tiffany Madison, goodreads.com

“I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“That’s when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn’t the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn’t enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn’t enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say i…”

— Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

— Kevyn Aucoin, Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a L

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

— Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.”

— Nick Clegg, Politics: Between The Extremes

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms (Penguin Classics)

“Sometimes we need second chances at life, new beginnings after big disasters. Whatever nightmares the night held – and there often are so, so many – morning light blows them away. Each morning, each time the sun peeks up in the eastern sky, it’s a new mini-life. A new start.”

— Alyssa Peiser, This Is Why Everyone Should Watch The Sun Rise

“But Guzim’s was the face we saw every day, the man who said good morning and good night to my girl, who smiled and cooed and remarked on her growth, her smile and her first words.”

— Julie Margaret Hogben, When the Doorman Is Your Main Man

“Happy families are not all alike. Some are fractured and misshapen. To appreciate them, you have to adjust your line of sight, your level of expectation.”

— Lara Bazelon, From Divorce, a Fractured Beauty

“There was love, an abundance of it; we just had to respect and accept that it was not the love of happily ever after.”

— Lara Bazelon, From Divorce, a Fractured Beauty

“I felt the acute pain of losing someone I loved and the relief of being able to retreat further inside myself without his feathery fingers of adoration checking in.”

— Caroline Hurwitz, When Moving Forward Means Stepping Back

“We were sick of each other but we also loved each other. He slept in my bed, where my stack of books on the bedside table cast a skyline shadow across his face.”

— Caroline Hurwitz, When Moving Forward Means Stepping Back

“Now I know what I want: a relationship that will fill me with dopamine and steady my heartbeat when he entwines his fingers with mine.”

— Melissa Hill, Can Tylenol Help Heal a Broken Heart?

“Unfortunately, years of schooling can’t teach you about recovering from heartbreak the way experience can.”

— Melissa Hill, Can Tylenol Help Heal a Broken Heart?

“There’s something in the air in the early mornings. I don’t know if it’s the quiet or if it’s the cold. I don’t know if it’s the idea that the sun hasn’t even risen yet, let alone your roommates or neighbors, or if it’s just the idea that the new day holds a multitude of possibilities and you have f…”

— Michael Hedrick, You Should Wake Up Early

“Absence was in the air, but presence too. My security guard lingered nearby.”

— Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, After a Suicide, a Security Guard for the Heart

“Dementia, in a weird and somehow paralleled way, is a huge metaphor for life. The cryptic lessons that dementia taught you bring you back to the most basic building blocks of humanity. Life is messy and hard and nonsensical, but love is the only thing that makes sense of it all.”

— Sarah Scheidt, 8 Ways Dementia Becomes A Beautiful Metaphor For Life

“For your whole life, you have lived in a world that praised objective reality. Something is or something is not. But, when dementia knocks on the door of someone you love, you learn that subjectivity often wins. You don’t lie to that person, but you don’t always knock down their perceptions of reali…”

— Sarah Scheidt, 8 Ways Dementia Becomes A Beautiful Metaphor For Life

“Twenty years and two children later, I am still with that same man. I don’t need him, but I want him in my life.”

— Karen Rinaldi, What Is a Man For?