Latest Quotes

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”

— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to liv…”

— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

“What makes people difficult and dooms relationships is almost never the people involved. It’s what we are trying to do with them. Inviting someone to marry you is really not a very kind thing to do to someone you love, because it’s going to drag the beloved into a range of really rather unpleasant a…”

— Alain de Botton, The Course Of Love

“In Haruki Murakami’s outstanding 1987 novel, Norwegian Wood, we are taken through every nuance in the emotions of unrequited or doomed love. What is ignored, as it almost always is in art, is the business of sharing a life with someone who isn’t married to someone else, distant, dying or out of reac…”

— Alain de Botton, How Fiction Ruined Love

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

— Kait Rokowski, Alight

“Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do. It’s what I did then and there. I stood up and got into my truck and drove away from a part of my mother. The part of her that had been my lover, my wife, my first love, my tr…”

— Cheryl Strayed, The Love of My Life

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, Worth

“Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits any other piece without a gap or pinch, and bent nails dance all over the surfacing like maggots. By Christ I am no carpenter. I built the roof for myself, the walls for myself, the floors for myse…”

— Alan Dugan, Love Song: I and Thou

“She didn’t tell him that she never minded being the breadwinner during the long span of their twenties. She did mind something she never said aloud: she’d wished her husband were better at what he chose to do. All of that standing in line in the rain. Going in only to perform a monologue. Home again…”

— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel

“We don’t get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”

— Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”

— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you…”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

“At the risk of going off brief here, can I just ask: What’s wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods — even extended ones — of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?”

— Alexi Murdoch, Breakthrough!: 90 Proven Strategies to Overcome Creative Block and Spark Your Imagination

“Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else.”

— John Brockman, THE THIRD CULTURE

“After the talk, when I started to show it to some designers I knew, one of them asked me 'When are you going to pipe real data in?' I asked him what he meant. 'Obviously this data is fake, nobody would have this many font-sizes.' I wish I had a photo of his face when I told him the data was real and…”

— Adam Morse, Ramblings on the past, present, and future of cssstats

“Traditionally the web has been pretty bad when it comes to motion — but it’s getting better, and in time it’s going to be great. Most interface patterns we know weren’t created with motion in mind. So we created UYI, a place to document the uprising of motion based interface patterns.”

— Use Your Interface, About

“There are no circumstances in which a consensus about an object's color is logically guaranteed to be the truth-however extensive the consensus is.”

— John Hyman, The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art

“But we are not authoritative in questions of fact. Like every other kind of judgment that we make, our judgments about what seems green and what is green cannot be tested by a jury of angels: human jurors are the only ones we have.”

— John Hyman, The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art

“So if we're serious about building a better world through technology and using it to elevate everyone into the modern era, we'll need committed leaders at the top—but not just that. A greater share of the industry's workforce can and should take more personal initiative. The pockets of deep, bold co…”

— Ash Huang, How Ordinary Tech Workers Can Improve The Industry's Diversity