295 quotes found
“Even "meant to be" takes work.”
“Is it me you're describing, or yourself?”
“The only stirrups I like are on a saddle.”
“You're sad but you hold everything back...”
“Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.”
“I have to crack a nut in order to enjoy it.”
“I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”
“Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never ...”
“The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?”
“I think part of your attraction to him is the draw of the unknown, of being different, even special. He is so out of the ordinary that you feel pulled to that because you yourself are not so ordina...”
“Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.”
“How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.”
“There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.”
“Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.”
“Underneath the sky, so void of light, the rain soaked me through. I held on to the railing and felt calm, even content, and then he had to reach through the dark, raise my temperature and make my h...”
“I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.”
“Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.”
“I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole....”
“It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like t...”
“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps w...”
“Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.”
“You can't be in my world...You live in this one.”
“We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.”
“Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?”
“One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.”
“Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.”
