Latest Quotes

“If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression.”

— Jesse Williams, BET Humanitarian Award Speech

“When anyone escapes, my heart leaps up. Even when it’s I who am escaped from, I am half on the side of the leaver.”

— Sharon Olds, 'Stag's Leap'

“I slept with him, thinking it meant he was back, his body was speaking for him”

— , 'Material Ode,' Stags Leap

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Tell this guy to eat a hundred-calorie pack of dicks.”

— Jenny Mollen, I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“If I had the chance to hurt you the way you hurt me, I wouldn't take it.”

— Unknown, Quora

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”

— Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“Forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Seeking to broaden its appeal to younger women, Time Inc. has snapped up Hello Giggles Inc., operator of the pop-culture, beauty and lifestyle website HelloGiggles.com. It is the latest in a series of digital acquisitions aimed at bolstering the reach of Time Inc.’s most important magazine brands. T…”

— Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Time Inc. Buys Hello Giggles

“Online lifestyle publisher SheKnows Media Holdings has agreed to acquire StyleCaster, a group of fashion and beauty websites, in hopes of broadening its base of advertisers... StyleCaster, which operates sites such as Stylecaster.com, BeautyHigh.com and DailyMakeover.com, attracted an average of 2.9…”

— Suzanne Vranica, SheKnows To Buy StyleCaster

“Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to make amends with who hurt you. It doesn’t mean befriending them, sympathizing with them or validating what they have done to you. It just means accepting that they’ve left a mark on you. And that for better or for worse, that mark is now your burden to bear. It m…”

— Heidi Priebe, Read This If There’s Someone You Can’t Forgive

“Forgiveness means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you…”

— Heidi Priebe, Read This If There’s Someone You Can’t Forgive

“The truth about anger is that it’s nothing more than the refusal to heal, because you’re scared to. Because you’re afraid of who you’ll be once your wounds close up and you have to go on living in your new, unfamiliar skin.”

— Heidi Priebe, Read This If There’s Someone You Can’t Forgive

“Univision disclosed the price tag for the stake in satirical site The Onion that it bought in January: It put up $27.1 million for a 40.5% interest. That gives Univision financial control, although it says the impact on its bottom line will be ‘immaterial.’”

— David Lieberman, Univision Says It Paid $27.1M For Its 40.5% Stake In The Onion

“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 Alder, 300 Questions To Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”

— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else — you are the one who gets burned.”

— Commonly Attributed To Buddha, “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of harming another; you end up getting burned.”

“Britain’s Daily Mail & General Trust PLC said Friday it has acquired cultural news website Elite Daily, which bills itself as ‘the voice of Generation Y,’ under a plan to broaden the U.K. publisher’s footprint in the U.S. The deal price was $47 million, a person familiar with the situation said. Eli…”

— Lukas I. Alpert, Daily Mail Acquires U.S. Website Elite Daily