“The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or…”— Melanie Williams, melaniejwilliams.com
“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”— Victoria Erickson, amazon.com
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Let each one of you be alone, as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together, yet not too near together:…”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“When the brain lights up, its activity is like a radio lighting up when music is played. It is an obvious fallacy to say that the radio composed the music. What is being viewed is only a physical correlation, not a cause.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“We had never stopped asking this question previously, and we already had the answer, which has not changed: philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“We’re just a tiny spark of light between two darknesses,” I said. “And my spark can now start to flicker. I feel a sense of relief at this.”— James Altucher, James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media…”— Richard Foster, amazon.com
“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”— Ari Eastman, Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort…”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What the hell is water…”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“I have my freedom today because nothing really happened and nobody came to see me, only the slow growing of the garden in the summer heat and the silence of that unborn life making itself known at my desk my hands still dark with the crumbling soil as I write and watch the first lines of a new poem…”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sen…”— Bob Moorehead, amazon.com
“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to ke…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Oh shut up. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning... but still you choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Sinclair Thomas, amazon.com
“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enter…”— Steven Pressfield, amazon.com
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com