Latest Quotes

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free

“For years now, we have become almost numb to the violence in Baghdad: Deadly car bombings there conjure up no hashtags, no Facebook profile pictures with the Iraqi flag, and no Western newspaper front pages of the victims' names and life stories.”

— Ishaan Tharoor, The worst Isis attack in weeks is the one the world probably cares least about

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choic…”

— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed…”

— Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“Fuck every country but America”

— James Melton, via twitter.com

“While reporting this story, I drove from New York to California. During all those days on the highway, with lots of time on my hands for theorizing, generalizing, and speaking my generalized theories into my iPhone while swerving off into the spacious landscape, I thought about this idea of grievanc…”

— Kia Gregory, Who Are All These Trump Supporters?

“Above all, Trump supporters are ‘not politically correct,’ which, as far as I can tell, means that they have a particular aversion to that psychological moment when, having thought something, you decide that it is not a good thought, and might pointlessly hurt someone’s feelings, and therefore decli…”

— Kia Gregory, Who Are All These Trump Supporters?

“The ability to shrug off the mean crack, the sexist joke, the gratuitous jab at the weak is, in some quarters, seen as a form of strength, of ‘being flexible,’ of ‘not taking shit serious.’ A woman who wilts at a sexist joke won’t last long in certain workplaces. A guy who prioritizes the sensitive…”

— Kia Gregory, Who Are All These Trump Supporters?

“What allows a person not crazy about Trump to vote for him is a certain prioritization: a person might, for example, like Trump’s ideas about trade, or his immigration policies, or the fact that Trump is, as one supporter told me, ‘a successful businessman,’ who has ‘actually done something,’ unlike…”

— Kia Gregory, Who Are All These Trump Supporters?

“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that's why she always struggled with God. And I think that's why she also struggled with love. She couldn't…”

— Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves (Forest of Hands and Teeth)

“Make art and live simply.”

— Shawn Lukas, The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify (Updated and Revised)

“Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.”

— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid

“Your home is living space, not storage space.”

— Francine Jay, The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify (Updated and Revised)

“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.”

— Colin Wright, Some Thoughts About Relationships

“Once upon a time we were young, our dreams hung like apples waiting to be picked and peeled.”

— Shane Koyczan, Remember How We Forgot

“I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.”

— Shane Koyczan, 8 beautiful and heartbreaking poems from Shane Koyczan

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

“I spent my life learning to feel less.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close