Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. ― Jeanette Winterson

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Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists. ― Nadia Murad

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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last. ― Frank O'Hara

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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo. - Matt Berninger

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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun. ― Robert Rauschenberg

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Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ― Lionel Shriver

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