Latest Quotes

“I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I can’t disagree with your experience. And once I have a sense of your experience, you and I are in relationship, acknowledging the complexity in each other’s position, listening less guardedly. The difference in our opinions will probably remain i…”

— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

“What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

“Things have their ways. They speak to us. They nudge us. Things live amongst us. Or, more properly put, we live amongst them. When I look at something, at anything, that thing quite literally fills my body. To perceive is to be affected. It is silly to think that we have some soul, some being, that…”

— Daniel Coffeen, The Life of Things

“Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke, the idea that boys might actually want you.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“And while she never felt quite normal, she was nowhere near crazy. She just loved too much. Choosing to see the world through her heart, instead of her eyes.”

— j e s s i c a m i c h e l l e (@_jessica.michelle_), Her

“It is both a blessing And a curse To feel everything So very deeply.”

— David Jones, Love And Space Dust

“Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the ha…”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“There are going to be people who cannot contain all of the love you are capable of giving them within their chests. They will fumble with the enormity of your affection; they will try to cleave at the heart of you, collapse you until you fit into the shapes and the sizes of their needs. They will te…”

— Bianca Sparacino, You Deserve The Love You Keep Trying To Give Everyone Else

“If you love something, love it completely, cherish it, say it, but most importantly, show it. Life is finite and fragile and just because something is there one day, it might not be the next. Never take that for granted. Say what you need to say, then say a little more. Say too much. Show too much.…”

— R. Queen, keys of shadow & light

“i dont know what living a balanced life feels like when i am sad i dont cry i pour when i am happy i dont smile i glow when i am angry i dont yell i burn the good thing about feeling in extremes is when i love i give them wings but perhaps that isn’t such a good thing cause they always tend to leave…”

— Rupi Kaur, Balance

“There's one thing I want to say so I'll be brave You were what I wanted I gave what I gave I'm not sorry I met you I'm not sorry it's over I'm not sorry, there's nothing to say.”

— Stars, Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

“Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with.”

— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.”

— Unknown, If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be. - philosiblog