Interpersonally Aversive Quotes & Sayings

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not. — L. Ron Hubbard

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting. — Elizabeth Wein

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly. It sounds like you have endured very nobly since you returned to New Jersey, and I want you to know I admire that. I hope you are able to reinvent yourself and live out the rest of your life with a quiet sense of satisfaction, which is what I have been trying to do since we parted. — Matthew Quick

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

The more I train, the more luckier I become. — Renzo Gracie

I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.
We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet. — Rabindranath Tagore

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. — Wendell Berry

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression. — Arthur Miller

Don't use your words to criticize, condemn, or complain; us your words to appreciate, inspire, and empower. — Debasish Mridha

She smiled. She was happy, yet sad. Life had never been more bittersweet. She looked at the
sunset. The pink sky was sinking into the deep blue ocean. It was almost as if the sky knew
it was making a mistake, digging its own grave. But for a moment there, at the very moment
before diving into the darkness of the sea, on the golden horizon, the sky shone brighter
than it ever had. It was glorious in its five seconds of fame. It was serendipitously happy,
like all its life had led to that moment. And then it died into the sea, content. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa

Where I prosper is my home." "Do — Elizabeth Hunter

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies. — Dani Shapiro

If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace. — John Piper

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. — Jeff Bezos