“Maybe I’m just a dreamer but I believe that love should be easy, it should be simple and clear. It shouldn’t be all questions and games and it shouldn’t leave you wondering or waiting.”— Rania Naim, shopcatalog.com
“As paradoxical as it sounds, negative coverage helps Trump because it bonds him to people who also feel disrespected by the denizens of the mainstream press.”— Howard Kurtz, hollywoodreporter.com
“I don’t have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on. There are some things that I won’t allow; I don’t want them on a social network.”— Tim Cook, marketwatch.com
“Alpha women do not put up with bullshit. They simply do not have the time to analyze mixed messages or become fluent in your hot and cold behavior. They’re way too busy working on their goals and leading thriving lives to entertain partners with half-assed efforts.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Our map of the world is so wrong that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from.”— Terence McKenna, youtube.com
“Rest when you’re tired. Take a break when life stales. Take time to recharge your battery. Energy isn’t something you have—it’s something you are. To give and give and give, to put out without taking in, depletes your battery. It drains you, runs you down.”— Melody Beattie, amazon.com
“Your mind is not in your head. It is between you and other people.”— Corey Anton, coreyanton.blogspot.com
“Big data can absorb individual voices, so much so that the self, the interpreter, may seem vulnerable, even lost.”— Sara van den Berg, amazon.com
“What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com
“When people constantly decry the lack of focus on women’s agency and what she could’ve done to 'prevent' herself from being a victim of rape, they forget that a woman’s agency and her ability to consent is already compromised by the way she has been shaped and constrained by her society and culture,…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“And perhaps, if your first reaction is to dismiss or belittle this woman’s experience because it is not a tidy story of assault, sit with that a minute, come at it again with compassion and know that assault can still take place when a woman goes home with a man.”— Kate Leaver, twitter.com
“Malignant narcissists exaggerate your flaws to the point of absurdity. This is meant to leave you feeling hopeless and worthless so that you are unable to self-validate. When you’re too busy feeling unworthy, you’re also too busy to realize that you deserve better.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“The readers know us and our pain and the ugly events of our lives, the emotions we’ve hidden for decades because we’ve spread them out for all to view. As writers, we’re voluntarily masochistic. Personally, I’d rather leap away and wrap myself in the comfort of denial and I can do that but my writin…”— Chuck Sambuchino, writersdigest.com
“You tell me that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish. Nothing remaining of my name. Nothing remembered of my fame. But the trees that I planted still are young, the songs I sang will still be sung.”— Johnny Cash, amazon.com
“In some of these conversations, we spent hours teasing out how these men, many of whom we knew to be intelligent and capable of real kindness, could behave so crudely and cruelly toward us. And this is another toll that sexual harassment can take on women: It can make you spend hours dissecting the…”— Moira Donegan, thecut.com
“I felt myself leaving Earth in an intimidatingly disquieting manner, like I was on a vessel I hadn’t suspected to exist, departing a place I’d assumed was the only place.”— Tao Lin, amazon.com
“The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash.”— Ibi Kaslik, amazon.com
“I refuse to be anyone's survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner.”— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com