Latest Quotes

“When men seek that control — when we feel it’s our due — and don’t achieve it, we can resent and hate. Toxic masculinity sets expectations that prime us for disappointment. We turn that disappointment on ourselves and others as anger and hatred.”

— James Hamblin, The Under-Discussed Role of Toxic Masculinity

“Every night I win a war with myself only to be taken down by the sunlight.”

— Nezrah Ahmad Masood, via Facebook

“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Do you think we mortals will find you gods easier to bear if you’re beautiful? I tell you that if that’s true we’ll find you a thousand times worse. For then (I know what beauty does) you’ll lure and entice. You’ll leave us nothing; nothing that’s worth our keeping or your taking. Those we love best…”

— C.S. Lewis, The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel…. Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them i…”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”

— Marlen Haushofer, The Loft

“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, ‘I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.”

— Linh Dinh, Poetry Sightings

“The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.”

— Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn: A Fever Novel

“Some people can love you more in a year than others could love you in fifty. Some people can teach you more within a single day than others could teach you over the entire course of a lifetime.”

— Heidi Priebe, We Don’t Always End Up With The Loves Of Our Lives (And That’s Okay)

“It is not your responsibility to turn a coward into a champion.”

— Ari Eastman, Reminder: You’re Too Brilliant For His Bullshit

“Fall in love with a guy who makes an effort. The guy who doesn’t throw in the towel when things get hard, who doesn’t storm away and run when you have a disagreement. A guy who is willing to sit down and talk through shit, even when it’s uncomfortable or hard. A guy who is always honest, always dire…”

— Jacob Geers, Fall In Love With A Guy Who Shows The Fuck Up

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the on…”

— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

“Do not weep but once, and a long time then Thereafter eat till your stomach spills over No more! you’ll cry too full for your eyes to leak * The words will wait”

— Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

“They say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. They don't see me, they don't see what my life is, they don't see what I live on, and they say, That is not his life, he does not live on that. I have lived on it until I'm old. Old enough.”

— Samuel Beckett, The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.”

— Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

“All day, men — no women — took the microphone and spoke. There was always a buzz in the audience, whispers, an audible hum of excitement. Then it was time for John Cage. He walked onto the stage and began to speak, without the microphone. He stood at the center of the small stage and addressed the c…”

— Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?

“Language is supposed to illuminate meaning, but it doesn’t always work that way. As usage evolves, definitions become unmoored, and different people start using the same word to mean entirely different things. I think ‘brand’ is one of those words that is widely used but unevenly understood.”

— Jerry McLaughlin, What is a Brand, Anyway?

“Today we are not so much communicating as miscommunicating. Or failing to communicate. Or choosing to communicate only with those who think as we do. Or communicating in a manner that is wholly detached from reality. Too often we look only for affirmation of our own ideas rather than opening ourselv…”

— Marty Baron, DIVIDED AMERICA: Constructing our own intellectual ghettos

“You have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne, The Power (The Secret)

“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”

— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are