Latest Quotes

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance, my silver set and my eternal loss.”

— Pablo Neruda, 'Sonata And Destructions,' Residence On Earth

“Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence. As much as 85 percent of video views happen with the sound off, according to multiple publishers. Take, for instance, feel-good site LittleThings, which is av…”

— Sahil Patel, 85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound

“Understanding is love’s other name.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, How To Love

“It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are no…”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“She was her father’s daughter but she’d inherited her mother’s black anger. It burned through her sometimes like a chemical fire, brief and devastating and utterly unstoppable.”

— Amber Sparks, via Tumblr

“I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“We prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose

“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.”

— Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall…”

— Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer

“What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be similar and comparable to that one day, you'd always have the same people with you? If you could do that, would you do it? Would you pick that day and make that choice? We crave for things to stop cha…”

— C. Joybell C., C. Joybell C.

“The system’s failure to catch killers effectively made black lives cheap.”

— Jill Leovy, Ghettoside

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

— Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”

— Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

“A civilization that relentlessly destroys the living land it inhabits is not well acquainted with truth, regardless of how many supported facts it has amassed regarding the calculable properties of its world.”

— David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surr…”

— David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

“If you were alone you would cut yourself in two so that one part would shape the other.”

— Elia Canetti, The Human Province

“People go but how they left always stays.”

— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey