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Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.
It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?
Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
Sweet,” he whispered, and stole a kiss from her lips. “Sweet… let me stay with you a little longer.” -Jack to Amanda
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.
I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.
There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.
If people wake up and go, "Oh, where's the coffee," or "Oh, another day," that does not set a good tone for the day.
If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.
Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.
We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.
I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.
I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.
But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.
I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.
The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.