Latest Quotes

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

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

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

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

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

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

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting,…”

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

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”

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

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“This is a bullet from a gun called "what the fuck?" If I was standing in your shoes I'd throw my hands straight up And start explaining at the speed of light, not sound How the words get some coffee came to mean get down. And all the kings horses and all the kings yen Couldn't stop the abracadabra t…”

— Mason Jennings, Bullet

“Oh, my heart is a thoroughbred I can't sleep in my bed Everything is burning up inside me I need something I can feel Cigarettes and a driving wheel and Oh my god, when you cross your legs beside me”

— Mason Jennings, Sorry Signs On Cash Machines

“Ah, you hate to see another tired man Lay down his hand like he was giving up the holy game of poker And while he talks his dreams to sleep you notice there's a highway That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder”

— Leonard Cohen, The Stranger Song

“Oh the bitter winds are coming in And I'm already missing the summer Stockholm's cold but I've been told I was born to endure this kind of weather When it's you I find like a ghost in my mind I am defeated and I gladly wear the crown.”

— First Aid Kit, Emmylou

“Spinning on that dizzy edge I kissed her face and kissed her head And dreamed of all the different ways I had To make her glow”

— The Cure, Just Like Heaven

“When I was young my mama told me She said 'Child take your time. Don't fall in love too quickly, before you know your mind.' She held me 'round the shoulders, In a voice so soft and kind She said 'Love can make you happy and love can rob you blind.' Here in California fruit hangs heavy on the vine.…”

— Kate Wolf, Here In California

“Your green eyes they don’t miss a thing They hold me like the sun going down And warm me like a fire in the night Without a sound”

— Kate Wolf, Green Eyes

“The first time I ever saw your laughter break loose inside and tumble out to me My heart knew it had found what it was after and it came so easily. We should know After all the years of the hard and lonely times Now our days go by like best friends’ story lines, yours and mine”

— Kate Wolf, Green Eyes

“As an estimated 4,000 people crowded the streets outside Webster Hall in the East Village at 2 a.m.. The crowded conditions outside the hall led dozens of fans to stand on cars, damaging several of them. Despite the chaos, the concert never took place.”

— Chris Harris, NYPD: Kanye West Won't Face Charges For Luring Crowds to Webster Hall With 'Careless' Announcement of Surprise Concert That Never Happened

“How many of us are still heartbroken over a guy we never dated? How many of us still go through old text messages, trying to figure out exactly where everything changed? How many of us replay old conversations and think of what we should’ve said to make us sound more chill, more laid back, less inte…”

— Ashley Jones, Why Do We Continue To Give Our Hearts To Those Who Hand It Back To Us?

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.”

— Albert Camus, Beyond Survival

“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.”

— Carrie, Sex And The City Quotes