Latest Quotes

“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”

— Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist And Her World

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.”

— Dorothea Tanning, Salon Interview Surrealist Dorothea Tanning

“There is endless complaining about the expectations put on creatives that don’t actually feel like a burden to actual creatives. Like, wow, 'create something today' how restrictive.”

— Chrissy Stockton, I am large, I contain multitudes.

“Letting other people in is actually a lot about letting yourself out.”

— Hannah Hart, Opening Up

“Love is supposed to change you, and it will. This is how we determine the quality of a relationship: by the person we become when we're in it. People always say the opposite – that you should never change for someone else – but with the right person, you will evolve rapidly. The right person will sh…”

— Brianna Wiest, A Fraction of the Whole

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”

— Alain de Botton, Saviors

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of yourself possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”

— C. Assaad, The Best Version of Yourself

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins, The Perfect Love

“The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or…”

— Melanie Williams, Our Filthy Heart

“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”

— Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”

— Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“We are what we do consistently, not what we occasionally struggle at.”

— John Fawkes, 40 things about life I wish I could travel back in time and tell myself — Life Learning

“Like falling for someone, sometimes falling away from someone takes time. And I think that’s okay. But slowly, too slowly, I will convince myself that I deserve better. Slowly, I will pick up myself and move on. Slowly, I will look forward to the day when I finally ignore your texts, your tweets, an…”

— Jacob Geers, I Can’t Wait Until The Day I Finally Stop Texting You Back

“You love me differently just like I love you differently and people change and move on and blah blah, but why is this sort of distant love the hardest thing to handle? How do people handle this? Do they?”

— Mila Jaroniec, I’m Still Not Ready To See You

“This is my acceptance that the best things are never straightforward and that I want you to take whatever crooked, twisted path you need to take if it will lead you towards your dreams.”

— Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“I’m exactly as happy as I was when I was waiting tables. I don’t think people get happier. But knowing that you’re financially OK and you can have health insurance is really nice.”

— Amy Schumer, The Guardian

“Each one of us is in hundreds of boxes, like watercolors, splish-splashing elements of ourselves over into the others, and in my view, when colors bleed into each other, we get the most beautiful rainbows.”

— iO Tillett Wright, He / She / It / ... Me

“Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.”

— iO Tillett Wright, Fifty Shades of Gay