Strength And Courage Pinterest Quotes & Sayings

Manhattan has been continuously inhabited for the past 3000 years, and was first settled by humans perhaps 9000 years ago. — Randall Munroe

Every heart must have
its private
bestseller book. — Sanober Khan

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive. — Augusten Burroughs

Vonnegut was talking," I say today, "about the psychic effects of trauma." There's a sentence of Alice Miller's looping in my mind, about grandiose people and depressives, Narcissus and Echo: "Neither can accept the truth that this loss or absence of love has already happened in the past, and that no effort whatsoever can change this fact." It's the main thing I've learned from reading all this psychology: the future is always trying to feel like the past. When it does, it feels like selfishness, hurt, loss at the hands of others. The trick is to let it empty. Maybe this is another way to come unstuck in time. — Kristin Dombek

I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's important that I'm properly dressed. — Tommy Donbavand

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle