“Dumb ass generation. Bitches scared to love, niggas scared to show emotion. Everybody wanna be hard and heartless.........”— Childish Gambino, twitter.com
“And though you voted for that awful man, I would never refuse your hand.”— Elvis Perkins In Dearland, open.spotify.com
“All I really really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and you too.”— Joni Mitchell, open.spotify.com
“You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You’re…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“If you resist medicating yourself with alco-, worko-, or Bravo Channel-holism, you will learn to trust yourself deeper, hear the voice of your inner guide clearer, and in the absence of another person telling you how beautiful/smart/clever you are, you will learn to generate this for yourself. Your…”— Stephanie St.Claire, medium.com
“Consciously we want to be happy, subconsciously we want to be healed.”— Stephanie St.Claire, medium.com
“The next bus leaves in 5 minutes. Translation: If you’ve given it a fair shot and your partner is not the right fit for you or doesn’t treat you well, move the hell on. There is a lot of love, opportunity, and partnership possibilities in this Universe ready and waiting for you. Replace your scarcit…”— Stephanie St.Claire, medium.com
“Each time I run my hands reverently along someone’s furry, chubby body, each time I elicit a joyfully ugly noise from someone while they’re coming, each time I tell someone his uncooperative boner is no big deal and mean it, I get better at loving and accepting not only my fellow human beings, but a…”— Kate Sloan, theestablishment.co
“Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?’ No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?’ No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?’ No,…”— Andrea Dworkin, amazon.com
“We need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness. But none of this is unusu…”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Do you realize that your refusal to utter the word 'love' to your lover has created a force field all its own? Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowi…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com