Latest Quotes

“If this is one of those moments in history where for various reasons the party has to play out nominating someone who is completely unelectable . . . so be it.”

— Stuart Stevens, Anti-Trump Republicans confront a dilemma: Are they ready to help elect Clinton?

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”

— C. Joybell C., A quote by C. JoyBell C.

“Love is not a perfect match, it is the connection between two people. If it were as simple as pairing up people who are most alike, the work would be easy. We are not searching for our perfect partners, we are searching for the kind of unexplainable connection that defies logic and reason and timing…”

— Anonymous, The Unexplainable

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

— William James, The Varieties Of Religious Experience

“The things we lose are not losses – they are entryways. They are second chances. They are wake up calls. They are the world saying to us clearly and sharply: there is something else out there. And when it most feels like we're standing on the edge of some unknown abyss, we must recognize that we fee…”

— Brianna Wiest, The Things You Lose Aren't Losses

“Many prevailing methods of choosing a romantic partner aim first to detect negative qualities: The checklist method focuses on superficial negative qualities, while seeking to identify major flaws offers more profound results. A third approach, discerning whether a partner will bring out the best in…”

— Aaron Ben-Zeév, How We Choose Romantic Partners, and How We Can Do It Better

“Because only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart, breaks.”

— Iain Sinclair Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“So may you find in each other what you came here for. And trust that this is love because it is (love is trust). And tangled lives you may lead but into each other, never apart, 'till you cannot distinguish between being and being together.”

— Iain Sinclair Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Every road that leads to heaven is right inside you.”

— Kanye West, Only One

“Sometimes I think we could have gone on. All of us. Trying. Forever. But they didn't fill the desert with pyramids. They just built some. Some.”

— Jennifer Michael Hecht, On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love

“My mother died fast but not all of a sudden. A slow-burning fire when flames disappear to smoke and then smoke to air. She never once closed her eyes. First they were bitter and then they were bewildered and then they changed again to something else, to a state that I have had, finally, to see as he…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Heroin/e

“The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among th…”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Most Astounding Fact

“A careful reading of older texts, particularly those concerned with the universe itself, shows that the authors invoke divinity only when they reach the boundaries of their understanding. They appeal to a higher power only when staring into the ocean of their own ignorance. They call on God only fro…”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance

“My friends, I am the son of a Polish immigrant who came to this country speaking no English, and having no money. My father worked everyday of his life, and he never made a whole lot. My Mom and Dad, and brother and I grew up in a small three and a half room, rent controlled apartment in Brooklyn, N…”

— Bernie Sanders, New Hampshire Victory Speech

“I have been told that girls always fall for men like their fathers, but I found it a hard concept to grasp when he was always gone and I grew up on radio static and blackberry preserves.”

— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed

“It's now time to ask Donald Trump the tough questions. Being a loose cannon doesn't in any way protect him, I hope, from being asked the hard questions that he should have been asked during the whole primary process.”

— Hillary Clinton, Hillary Calls on Press to Toughen Up on Trump

“If in life we can learn to identify the internal voices of our wounding that get provoked in relationships and to sabotage them, we can reclaim our true selves and behave more maturely in our relationships. Only then we will stand a chance at successful relationships and the gift of intimacy.”

— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, The Intimacy Factor

“People who doubt their own truth can never be real to their partner. They are always watching the partner so that they can adapt to the partner’s evaluation of the truth. 'No, tell me what you think of the situation,' is a favorite reply. They become who they think the partner needs them to be. Thei…”

— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, The Intimacy Factor

“Recovery is about changing the conversation that has been placed inside our heads by immature, abusive parenting.”

— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, The Intimacy Factor

“Healthy intimacy requires the trusting offer of our true self to another and our trusting acceptance of the other’s true self in return.”

— Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich, The Intimacy Factor