You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.
The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.
Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.
I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
One must not trifle with love.
I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.
Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man...
The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.
Perhaps, the secret in reaching that ever eluding state of personal contentment, lies in finding the balance between not caring too much and not giving a damn.
The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people halfway. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel...
As highly sensitive individuals, we simply cannot stand feeling trapped, constricted or smothered in any way. We highly value our freedom and autonomy, making us particularly prone to staying single...
You're wasted on the occasional bout of missionary sex with a disinterested man.
Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.
I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.
Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom. They always put me in a bad mood.
Are you unhappy? Ok. Being unhappy is a part of life
Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.
Forgiveness can help you to be sane.
I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.
A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness
Survivors who don't stand up for themselves often develop physical and emotional illnesses. Many become depressed because they feel so hopeless and helpless about being able to change their lives....
Some people are just like snakes, they will never understand your love.
Letting go of sorrow gives you enough strength to carry happiness. Letting go of anger gives you enough strength to carry kindness. Letting go of fear gives you enough strength to carry hopefulness....
There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder.
But there is an overarching passion that keeps me alive. That is love, understood as a condition in which I can be an inspiration, make someone feel happy and special, and in turn, feel understood and...
Be courageous enough to forgive yourself
Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.
The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?