Latest Quotes

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”

— Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”

— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free

“You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.”

— Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”

— David Richo, Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

“People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.”

— Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals

“You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others won’t feel uncomfortable around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful apology is how you live the rest of your life.”

— Kathryn Schulz, Penny Beernsten, Being Wrong

“Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”

— Greg Behrendt, It's Called A Breakup Because It's Broken

“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”

— Geneen Roth, Women Food And God: An Unexpected Path To Almost Everything

“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place am…”

— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity.”

— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”

— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

— R. R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones

“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘don’t leave me here alone’.”

— Neil Gaiman, Dark Sonnet

“It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.”

— Nicole Williams, Crash

“The person you loved took a good long look at the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together, and said, “No, thanks. I’ll try my luck elsewhere.” That alone should make you realize that it wasn’t a match made in heaven.”

— Greg Behrendt, It's Called A Breakup Because It's Broken

“I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that’s exactly like being found.”

— Claire LaZebnik, Epic Fail