“If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.”— Brandon Stanton, facebook.comTagged: Love, Right Love, Choices, Wrong love
“I get way too sensitive when I get attached to someone. I can detect the slightest change in the tone of their voice, and suddenly I’m spending all day trying to figure out what I did wrong.”— Brandon Stanton, humansofnewyork.comTagged: Attachment, Relationships
“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn’t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thin…”— Barack Obama, humansofnewyork.comTagged: The way forward, Creativity, Work, Quote of the Moment, 40-somethings
“These last five days have been magic. I feel so happy and nervous at the same time. This is my first girlfriend so I don’t even know what to do. I don’t know what to talk about. I don’t even know how to sit.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: HONY, Dating, puppy love
“You’re a great person, and I’ll never be afraid of what’s going on with you.’”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: HONY, Sweet Things To Say, LGBTQ+, Parenting
“I can't stand moral absolutism. You know, there's always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife-- as if he obviously couldn't have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and then…”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: MLK, Morality, Moral Absolutism, Important, Spilled Ink
“I'm not sure if people have become less interesting, or if I'm just less interested in people.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Anti-Social, Alone, Social Anxiety, Loner, Introvert
“It was happening. And just because it didn’t happen forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t valuable.’”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Break Up, Perspective, Failure, Inspirational
“I’m realizing that a good relationship with my parents will always require doing exactly what they say.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Parent's Love, Parents, Abusive Parents, Abusive Mother
“I can’t expect good relationships to happen just because I exist.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: HONY, Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Shy
“If I think back, I get depressed. If I think ahead, I get afraid.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Illness, Future
“I grew up in the suburbs. I used to think that I could write a prescription for a poor man: ‘Get a job, save your money, pull yourself up by the bootstraps.’ I don’t believe that anymore. I was ignorant to the experiences of poor people. I’d invite anyone to come and meet the people who live in this…”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Living Wage, American Dream
“Do you decide what kind of leader you are based on who’s watching?”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Leadership, Wisdom
“[On PTSD] It’s the most embarrassing thing a grown man can experience. It’s like having a nightmare while awake.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Mental Health, PTSD, Anxiety
“You’re encased in a disastrous matrix of fear and loathing.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: The Universe, Life, Existential Crisis
“Burn all your bridges. Who cares? You’re all lying to each other. You all hate each other more than you love each other.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Friendship, Alone, Social Anxiety, Deep Thoughts, Spilled Ink
“The closest you can get to freedom is anonymity. Fame is the worst prison of them all. Because then people have ideas about you and ideas about your life. And if you’re not what they expect then they will fuck you up.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Fame, Pop Culture, Expectations
“There was a terrified child inside of him. He wanted to love. And he wanted to be loved. He just didn’t know how.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Love, Child Abuse, Apathy, Unrequited Love
“She counted her rosary beads and condemned the world.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Fascist, Hypocrisy, Religion, Judgmental
“I try to challenge myself in a different way every day.”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Challenge, Self Improvement