“We forget that we are loveable. We forget that we’re desired. We forget that we are anything other than the hard-shelled, busybody workaholics that we’ve all been trained to behave as. We forget that we, too, merit adoration.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let everything happen to you, Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The surest way forward is usually a plain approach done with close attention to detail.”— Frank Chimero, frankchimero.com
“No one's gonna love you, no one's gonna touch you, no one's gonna look at you the way that I do. 'Cause you're mine.”— Phantogram, open.spotify.com
“The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across.”— Marian Diamond, amazon.com
“It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the ‘truth’ one could still barely endure.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Before I knew the phrase ‘irl’ I knew that irl was never going to be the place I felt most at home, which is a lonely thing to know from a young age, maybe.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'll always love you, because we grew up together. And you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know that there will be a piece of you in me, always. And I'm grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, wherever you are in the world. I'm sending you love. You're my friend to the end.”— Spike Jonze, Theodore, Joaquin Phoenix, amazon.com
“It was raining in Los Angeles the day of my appointment, which is basically a push notification from nature like, you still haven’t watched the third season of Transparent and you own all those couch blankets and don’t I make you feel so coooold and ~reflective~?”— Stephanie Georgopulos, medium.com
“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny world.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn’t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thin…”— Barack Obama, humansofnewyork.com
“All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“A long time back, I used to listen to a song by Dennis Wilson. It was from 'Pacific Ocean Blue', the album he made after The Beach Boys fell apart. There was a line in it I loved: "loneliness is a very special place." As a teenager, sitting on my bed on autumn evenings, I used to imagine that place…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist...It’s the thinking of a toddler.”— ariel levy, mobile.nytimes.com
“Loneliness feels like such a shameful experience, so counter to the lives we are supposed to lead, that it becomes increasingly inadmissible, a taboo state whose confession seems destined to cause others to turn and flee.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“If you want something you have to work hard for it. Not a half-assed hard either, I mean you need to work your ass off.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com