Not merely alive, but outfitted with a mind that was functioning at the uppermost limits of its capacity—a mind that was seeing everything, and understanding everything, as though watching it all from...
Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow—for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you hav...
My truth is not a condemnation of yours.
Modern married women do not fare better in life than their single counterparts. Married women in America do not live longer than single women; married women do not accumulate as much wealth as single...
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming...
Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.
Ljudi misle da je srodna duša ona koja im savršeno odgovara, i to svi žele. Ali, istinska srodna duša je ogledalo, osoba koja ti pokazuje sve što te sputava, osoba koja tvoju pozornost usmjerava prema...
Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to.
La adicción es típica en todas las historias de amor basadas en el encaprichamiento.Al llegar al destino final del amor caprichoso: la más absoluta y despiadada devaluación del propio ser.
Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.
It’s all for the best, I know it is. I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. I know all this. But sti...
It’s a pity we cannot put an old head on young shoulders, or you could be wise, too. But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering—no matter what you may thin...
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around US. Because they (the...
If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That’s the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. Bu...
If faith were rational, it wouldn't be - by definition - faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all...
I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it. ~ Tulsi
I work either way, you see - assisted or unassisted - because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by...
I took on my depression like it was the fight of my life, wich of course, it was. I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes. What was the root of all this dispai...
I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper.
I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch.