“I’ve also come to realize I enjoy prioritizing the things I want to do for myself, because if I go into a relationship, I want to be 100% ready and be able to give my whole commitment to the person I love.”— Jeremiah Diana, thoughtcatalog.com
“First of all, it's easier to do when you've had a few drinks. I know that's not 'healthy' advice, but it's real advice. Your spirit and butthole are freed or something. It just doesn't feel as weird.”— Anna B., womenshealthmag.com
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know;…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Don’t get buried in self-doubt just because someone else, no matter who they are to you in life, projects his/her own self-doubts onto you.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nothing is more rewarding and admirable than leading by silent example.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“America, we need more cities organized like those in Europe. Sorry, BP, you (and your profits) can suck an egg.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“But Guzim’s was the face we saw every day, the man who said good morning and good night to my girl, who smiled and cooed and remarked on her growth, her smile and her first words.”— Julie Margaret Hogben, nytimes.com
“Happy families are not all alike. Some are fractured and misshapen. To appreciate them, you have to adjust your line of sight, your level of expectation.”— Lara Bazelon, nytimes.com
“There was love, an abundance of it; we just had to respect and accept that it was not the love of happily ever after.”— Lara Bazelon, nytimes.com
“I felt the acute pain of losing someone I loved and the relief of being able to retreat further inside myself without his feathery fingers of adoration checking in.”— Caroline Hurwitz, nytimes.com
“We were sick of each other but we also loved each other. He slept in my bed, where my stack of books on the bedside table cast a skyline shadow across his face.”— Caroline Hurwitz, nytimes.com
“Now I know what I want: a relationship that will fill me with dopamine and steady my heartbeat when he entwines his fingers with mine.”— Melissa Hill, nytimes.com
“Unfortunately, years of schooling can’t teach you about recovering from heartbreak the way experience can.”— Melissa Hill, nytimes.com
“Absence was in the air, but presence too. My security guard lingered nearby.”— Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, nytimes.com
“Twenty years and two children later, I am still with that same man. I don’t need him, but I want him in my life.”— Karen Rinaldi, nytimes.com
“Finally, surrender became not just inevitable but exhilarating. I didn’t want to hold on to anything anymore. I wanted to fall, and I already had. And I knew that this time, too, I would be O.K.”— Natalie Lindeman, nytimes.com