Smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitu...
The things we dislike most in others are the characteristics we like least in ourselves.
The thing about personal growth, I’ve discovered, is that you rarely get any choice in it. It only ever happens as a side-effect of some loss or trauma.
Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I ha...
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do comp...
Is it not strange,’ she said, ‘that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?
I wake with a thought: This is my life. I’ve only got one. I should live it the way I want
I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say Well, I won't give her that lump in her breast for another year. Best to let her recover from...
Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the l...
Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.
Sometimes things don’t happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won’t be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out.
You don't have to sleep with someone, you can be unfaithful with your emotions.
Where’s that guy with the coffee?’ ‘I’m here.’ Mannix had appeared. ‘You went to Costa Rica for the beans?
This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re...
Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say.
Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.
She liked to pretend that she liked everyone, in the hope that it might help her jump the line into Heaven.