“‘I believe that I have a right to sit here,’ I said quietly. ‘If I sit in the back of the bus I am depriving that child—' I pointed to a little white child of five or six—‘of the knowledge that there is injustice here, which I believe it is his right to know. It is my sincere conviction that the pow…”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com
“It's one day at a time. We don't talk about last year. We don't talk about next week. We don't talk about next year. We talk about today and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself. If there is something that's your passion when you'…”— Bill Belichick, cnbc.com
“Building a life with another human being means working with what you have.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand—the name appears Already written—wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart…”— Alexander Pope, poetryfoundation.org
“You idealize them and put them on a pedestal. Everything they do, from the awkward to the charming, gets flagged in your mind as evidence that they are a flawless, loveable human being.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“You find yourself lost in elaborate fantasies about his person, from the typical to the eccentric. Your fantasies tend to have a “heroic” element to them in that you even imagine saving your crush from dangerous situations.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s important to note that in limerence, the addiction to this other person is often heightened by the fantasy, not the reality, of who they are and the nature of the relationship.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“A limerent person can suffer from such a hyperfocus on the other person that they begin to lose focus on their own lives and revolve their entire day around interaction with this person.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Limerence isn’t so much about commitment and intimacy as it is about obsession.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“That poor girl. She doesn't know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.”— Erin Levy, Matthew Weiner, Betty Draper, January Jones, imdb.com
“The reason you haven't felt is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell nylons.”— Matthew Weiner, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, imdb.com
“Of course I love you. I'm giving up my life to be with you, aren't I?”— Matthew Weiner, Pete Campbell, Vincent Kartheiser, imdb.com
“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”— George Foreman, npr.org
“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”— Samuel Butler, books.google.com
“The complicated chemistry created by two people who love each other has always interested me, maybe because I struggle so much to understand how it’s possible.”— Alia Wilhelm, rookiemag.com
“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com