Latest Quotes

“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”

— Jane Hirshfield, The Lives Of The Heart

“He and I are walking on parallel lines towards opposite infinities. Our paths may have intersected once, but our equations changed along the way.”

— Jordan French, This Is What It’s Like To Watch Your Ex Move On

“The first summer I met you, life was like a country song.You were the easy-going, beer drinking, back roads driving, carefree fresh breeze I was looking for but didn’t even know it.”

— Meg Steorra, What It Feels Like to Love Someone Who Loves You Back

“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Every being in this world makes an impact on at least one person they encounter during their lifetime. You can change the course of someone’s life by just a kind word, a hateful one, or even by simply choosing not to say anything at all. Every choice you make has the potential to create a ripple eff…”

— L.B. Simmons, The Resurrection Of Aubrey Miller

“I am not hungry, but I will eat because my stomach is the kind of empty I can fill.”

— Ashe Vernon, BREAK UP BLUES

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“Silly me. I thought love was real & the body imaginary.”

— Ocean Vuong, Eurydice

“It’s not about the light — but how dark it makes you depending on where you stand.”

— Ocean Vuong, Eurydice

“When I take up space, please know: it will not be on your terms... If there are worse things plaguing the earth in dire need of attention, perhaps it isn't on me to transfix you elsewhere.”

— Orooj-e-Zafar, From Kim, With Love

“I want to be your tongue most days.”

— Orooj-e-Zafar, Chronic Respiratory Distress Syndrome

“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”

— Clementine Von Radics, Untitled

“How long do we have to keep suffering from this misery?”

— Tim Arango, Baghdad Attacks by ISIS Point to Trouble for Group, but Not Imminent Defeat

“You never need to apologize for how you chose to survive.”

— Clementine Von Radics, Mouthful Of Forevers

“The minute you learn to love yourself, you would not want to be anybody else.”

— Rihanna, From Her Speech At The 2016 BET Awards

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so importan…”

— Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies,…”

— Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“Perhaps it is not necessary to franticly complete a to-do list. Perhaps it is not necessary to overly focus on the future or even focus on the future at all. Perhaps it’s more important to live the moments, to look for the meaning in the simple day-to-day moments.”

— Monique Rainford-Bourne, What A Dying Friend Taught Me About Living (And It’s Not About Making A Bucket List)

“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication