Latest Quotes

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”

— Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“For all the productivity and success advice I’ve read, shaped and marketed for dozens of authors in the last decade, I’ve never really seen someone come out and say: Find yourself a spouse who complements and supports you and makes you better. Instead, we’re supposed to believe that relationships ti…”

— Ryan Holiday, The Perfect Spouse Is the Best Life Hack No One Told You About - RyanHoliday.net

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.”

— Oriah, The Invitation

“Physical chemistry is not physical at all. Anybody can be attracted to another person, but when bodies move like they've known one another forever and eyes lock like you weren't strangers just a little while ago and lips meet like they were built for one another, it is a manifestation of something d…”

— Anonymous, The Eyes That See Love

“Without purpose, a logo is merely design.”

— Brian Solis, What is the purpose of a logo? It’s more than design…it’s about purpose — Prototyping: From UX to Front End

“When sunlight shines through the trees, the interplay between light and leaves. The feeling of your skin on someone else’s. People who are funny without being mean. People who are deep without being negative. The mind fuck that is 'all is as it should be.'”

— Brianna Wiest, 33 Experiences We Don’t Have English Words For Yet

“As I have seen repeatedly in my own life and you can see with even a cursory study of history, problems are not solved with an uncontrollable flash of genius or creativity, but with sober reflection, strategy and execution. We don’t go in fueled by adrenaline, guns blazing. Rather, a solution is a w…”

— Ryan Holiday, Ryan Holiday, Passion Is The Problem, Not The Solution

“We have come to believe that only those who have passion find fulfillment and success professionally. It’s as if passion is life’s magic pixie dust. We want success for our children and believe that only passion can lead them there. We hold on to this myth despite considerable evidence that millions…”

— Lisa Heffernan, Our Push For Passion and Why It Harms Kids

“From a young age, resilient children tended to meet the world on their own terms. They were autonomous and independent, would seek out new experiences, and had a positive social orientation. Though not especially gifted, these children used whatever skills they had effectively. Perhaps most importan…”

— Maria Konnikova, How People Learn to Become Resilient

“Very intelligent people are actually less satisfied with their lives if they socialize with people more frequently. Those with more intelligence and the capacity to use it are less likely to spend so much time socializing because they are focused on some other longer term objective. Think of the rea…”

— Christopher Ingraham, Why smart people are better off with fewer friends

“The truth is that the key to relaxation and finding inner peace doesn’t rely much on work, culture, or consumption. Telling the truth in daily life will completely change your life. People become unhappy over time because they lie to everyone. The best way to uncover your own mental lies is to ask y…”

— Daily Zen, How to Relax Now

“He is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically, a sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I wonder if we will ever stop seeing each other / if we will ever realize that we will never fully belong to one another / because we will never fully understand how to love ourselves.”

— Liz Rae, We Will Never Be Finished With Each Other

“I thought about the notebooks I filled up in high school, the ones that I’m still too scared to open up and revisit, not because I think my bad writing will make me cringe, but because I’m afraid my bad writing will make me yearn to write like that again—and I don’t mean writing poems that compare m…”

— Jenny Zhang, The Importance Of Angsty Art

“I am lowering taxes far more than any other candidate. Any negotiated increase by Congress to my proposal would still be lower than current!”

— Donald Trump, twitter.com

“I’ve been dating. I’ve been having the best time. But I don’t trust anybody, so dating can only be fun if I know I’m going to have fun.”

— Selena Gomez, Selena Gomez is tired of talking about her relationship with Justin Bieber

“Victory Day is both a state and a very personal, family holiday. It has become a symbol of a sacred relation of Russia and its people. And this unity, devotion to fatherland is a core to our strength, confidence and dignity.”

— Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin unleashes 'miniskirt army' - but is it sexist?

“I am tired of being taken for granted. If only I could get back a fraction of what I give. But my efforts go unrecognized, and my soul keeps wishing to be noticed, to be valued; to be understood.”

— Lang Leav, Misunderstood

“I have to believe that the stories I write are true. I don’t care if they are real, but I have to believe that they’re true. I know that reality and truth are not always the same thing. I’m not interested in reality, but I have a great interest in truth. I have to believe that the story I write ever…”

— Christos Ikonomou, Plough Shares at Emerson College: An Interview by Maria Eliades