“It was the first place on the internet I found that made me feel okay about being confused and alive, and I fell in love with it.”— Mila Jaroniec, thoughtcatalog.com
“When I was at Thought Catalog, we kind of had creative liberty that we could just write what we wanted, and that’s just what kept coming out. That’s just what I wanted to write about, what I was dealing with and what other people could maybe get something from.”— Brianna Wiest, lancasteronline.com
“I believe in the writer—the writer, above all. That’s how we started off: admiring the writer.”— Robert Silvers, nymag.com
“I finally decided to sit down 6 women I know personally who have cheated or had an affair and asked them the same questions as I previously asked the men. [Names have been changed for privacy]. Side note: I do not condone, agree with, or find cheating acceptable in any form.”— Chelsea Ellise, thoughtcatalog.com
“Over a year ago I wrote an article where I interviewed 6 men who had cheated on their significant other, and asked their ‘real’ reasons for doing so.”— Chelsea Ellise, thoughtcatalog.com
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”— Tom Robbins, thoughtcatalog.com
“The person that you want to date is already alive and well. They are living their life somewhere in this world, on this earth, and it serves you to trust in their existence.”— Miss Solomon, thoughtcatalog.com
“Perhaps it is not necessary to franticly complete a to-do list. Perhaps it is not necessary to overly focus on the future or even focus on the future at all. Perhaps it’s more important to live the moments, to look for the meaning in the simple day-to-day moments.”— Monique Rainford-Bourne, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wonder if I’ll keep trying to fix all the people who are already unfixable. I wonder if I’ll keep cutting myself trying to put their shattered pieces together. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that they won’t stop me from bleeding when they are the ones who keep slashing my veins.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have faith in your strength, in your ability to rise back up after the fall, in your persistence to fight through the worst days of your life and in your courage to start over. I have faith that you will find your way out of the darkness and slowly let the light back in. I have faith that you will…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“To find everything profound—that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Relevance is discovered or produced by the reader; it is the moment and process of production in the cultural economy that takes the text beyond its role as commodity in the financial. Popular discrimination, then, does not operate between or within texts in terms of their quality, but rather in the…”— John Fiske, amazon.com
“Inspiring more creativity is more important than whether you or I like the creativity we've inspired.”— Lawrence Lessig, amazon.com
“I've always looked at media as something I call social currency, in other words: people don't buy records in order to have the record, just in order to have that music; people buy records in order to have an excuse for someone else to come over to their house and visit them. People watch a movie so…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Unplanned, unanticipated encounters are central to democracy itself. Such encounters often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating. They are important partly to ensure against fragmentation and extremism, which are predictable outcomes of a…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com
“One reason why false and offensive speech is permitted in most liberal democracies is precisely because the best answer to bad speech is good speech, rather than censorship.”— Alan Dershowitz, amazon.com