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""What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.""
— Erich Segal (Love Story)

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"It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart."
— Julius Lester (Day of Tears)

6 people liked it

"It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly."
— Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)

tags: war
10 people liked it

"Certainty is missing the point entirely."
— Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)

tags: spiritual
22 people liked it

"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."
— Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)

tags: life
46 people liked it

"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."
— Anne Lamott (Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith)

tags: coping, grief
8 people liked it

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: emotions, life, spiritual
89 people liked it

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: wish
217 people liked it

"That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain."
— Alexander McCall Smith (Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams)

tags: intuition, love, surprise
11 people liked it

"You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience."
— Krista Tippett (Speaking of Faith)

tags: life, opinion, religion
2 people liked it

"A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

tags: home, life
9 people liked it

"All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

tags: life
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"If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

tags: life
5 people liked it

"We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

tags: humans, life, spiritual
11 people liked it

"Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

tags: people, world
3 people liked it

"Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

tags: life, time
7 people liked it

"My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.""
— Randy Pausch

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"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

tags: experience
179 people liked it

"When we're connected to others, we become better people."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

tags: life, people
17 people liked it

"To say goodbye is to die a little."
— Raymond Chandler (The Long Goodbye)

tags: change, life, romantics
30 people liked it

"The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life."
— Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore)

tags: ego, life
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"If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return."
— Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore)

tags: anger, fear
4 people liked it

"Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't."
— Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore)

tags: change
1 person liked it

"Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth."
— Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore)

tags: truth, war
4 people liked it

"Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance."
— Deepak Chopra (The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore)

tags: acceptance
2 people liked it

"But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart."
— Sana Krasikov (One More Year: Stories)

tags: life, love, relationships
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"I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: healing, pain, relationships
6 people liked it

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
— Kahlil Gibrán

11 people liked it

"Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: life, relationships
5 people liked it

"Love is not the limitation; love is the flying."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: love
4 people liked it

"You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: trust
3 people liked it

"Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: love, relationships, respect, submission
6 people liked it

"So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: knowing, love, relationships
5 people liked it

"All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: love, people, relationships
11 people liked it

"Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: grace, life, love
8 people liked it

"you can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you."
— Frederick Buechner

tags: family
10 people liked it

"Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: forgiveness
10 people liked it

"Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: forgiveness
14 people liked it

"Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can he healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

tags: healing, life, tears
10 people liked it

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
— Henry Rollins

tags: life
67 people liked it

"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: depression, loneliness
8 people liked it

"It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head."
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: life, love, relationships
18 people liked it

"Love heals scars love left"
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: love
13 people liked it

"I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do."
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: knowledge, life
6 people liked it

"The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself."
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: evolution, life
5 people liked it

"A rose trapped inside a fist."
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: beauty
4 people liked it

"I get tired of talking when I want to be silent."
— Henry Rollins (The Portable Henry Rollins)

tags: silence
4 people liked it

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