38125 Quotes & Sayings

Theoretically, I wanted to meditate, but I found actually doing it extraordinarily difficult. As a therapist, I knew that we all want progress, but we resist change. I was a vivid example of this maxim. Figuring out my taxes and going to the dentist were easier than meditating. Even as I told myself meditation was a top priority, I worked to avoid that forty-five minutes alone with my mind. — Mary Pipher

I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast. — Elena Ferrante

The books, raped and rummaged of their dignity, lay in heaps on the floor. — Ruta Sepetys

Come with me, Elliot. I have wanted to ask you for weeks, but I have waited, out of fear and doubt and the belief that it's nothing but my own selfishness that wants you with me. I wrestled with this, and chance after chance passed me by. I can't afford to lose this one.
Please accept. This time, please accept.
And please believe that no matter what, I am, ever,
Your
Kai — Diana Peterfreund

This is a bit of curveball, but people who are really good kissers never have anything given to them. — Kenny Chesney

You have the blood of warriors in your veins. The kind of men who protect what is theirs and love without restraint. I want that love and I want you. (Gabrielle)
It's all yours. You're not getting much out of this deal since all I own is what I can carry in two hands. (Carlos)
Great. That means I get to decorate the house the way I want. (Gabrielle) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Swimming against the current is easier if what is on the other side is greater than your pain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them. — Claire Danes

All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts. — John Spence

But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it. — Marisa Silver

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. — Christopher Hitchens

Oh darling, I don't slip into the sack with just anyone and when I do, I prefer gentlemen. — Katherine McIntyre

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it. — Richard Paul Evans