1,446 quotes found
“Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.”
“Theres always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friends brother who gets you in a headlock kind of hold. Or the little kid youre babysitting who attaches himself to your leg k...”
“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace...”
“Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.”
“We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this.”
“there is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We fe...”
“If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.”
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered ...”
“Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as o...”
“Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically...”
“The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.”
“Please, touch me, I pray.”
“Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those wh...”
“No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.”
“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”
“Anyway." I cleared my throat loudly. "Thank you again for the beautiful necklace. It's perfect, and I love it. Where did you find it? I've never seen anything like it before."It was his turn to loo...”
“No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.”
“If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.”
“The human body is the best work of art.”
“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when youre so ugly on the inside?”
