Terry Tempest Williams
- When Women Were Birds
It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones-black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It's what I do each time I sit down to write. What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us?
Serita Mckenzie
- Wax
Beneath me I feel anger lurking, this recognizable pang that sets fire to me, so I write a poem. My words ball up inside of me, a fist that is constantly opening and closing, and I'm concerned that if I release them with the intensity they strike me with, will the language burn the reader, too? I can't go on with these words and thoughts scorching my mind, a tiny tealight candle melting through the very thoughts that lit it. Other than the inferno, my mind is plain, infested with usual thoughts.
Vsauce
I think it's easy to think that we know a lot more than we know, to think that everything is accounted for and accountable, but in reality, we are all just a bunch of soft animals walking in and out of rooms.
Anonymous
- I love unfinished endings
I love unfinished endings. When movies have a happy ending, then introduce a new problem or adventure right before the credits roll. It's the most realistic of endings, that there is no end. There's always something to come. Especially when there's no sequel; I love interpreting what will happen next.
Anonymous
- Feeling Down
Sometimes that mood just hits, and it really hits. You know the feeling. The feeling of loneliness and sorrow. It's a subtle feeling like the weight of a blanket draped over you. Dragging you down ever so slightly, bringing up feelings of inadequacy or loneliness when you're alone. It's that feeling that you feel in the shower you think about what things you should do tomorrow, just to forget them as soon as you get out. It's a feeling I'm well familiar with. I know it oh so well, and so do you.
Terry Tempest Williams
- When Women Were Birds
Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us... The women in my family didn't always agree, but it was in their company I felt inspired and safe.
Cambridge
- Megacities
Employment and educational opportunities are the main attraction of urban centers. But hopes for a better life are often dashed as overpopulation puts an enormous strain on the infrastructure of the cities and their ability to provide basic necessities such as clean water and a place to live.
Brandon Sanderson
- Quote from Warbreaker
You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences if you must. But don't pity me for my faith. And don't presume that you're better, just because you believe something different.
Hannibal NBC
- The Gallery Scene - Dolce
"I wanted to understand you before I laid eyes on you again. I needed to be clear what I was seeing." "Where does the difference between the past and the future come from?" "Mine? Before you and after you."
Hans Librando
- Love is great
These days, a lot of people are scared to fall in love. I don't blame them, not one bit. Falling in love is scary; it makes you over think about everything, "Does she really love me? I wonder where she is right now, is she talking to other people?" And I understand, it is scary, but that's what makes love good at the same time. Love is like a box of chocolates; you know exactly what you're gonna get.
Bored at Work
- A Grim Side to Keyhero
Have you ever thought about how it's likely an author of a quote on this website has since passed away, potentially leaving their quote as their most enduring public legacy to all mankind? It's both a happy thought that we can immortalize people on a typing website, but also a grim one...
Ted Lasso
- Ted Lasso - Season 3
I don't know about you, Coach. But I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we're ever given a second chance.
Sleeping with Sirens
- If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn
Stay for tonight, if you want to. I can show you what my dreams are made of, as I'm dreaming of your face. I've been away for a long time, such a long time, and I miss you there. I can't imagine being anywhere else. I can't imagine being anywhere else but here.
juju <3
- wasted summers
I wasted like half of my summer tryna hold on your hand. You're the leech, I'm the man, I guess you don't understand. Holding hands, say I can't. You're telling me yes, I can.
My Chemical Romance
- The Sharpest Lives
Well it rains and it pours when you're out on your own. If I crash on your couch can I sleep in my clothes? 'Cause I've spent the night dancing and I'm drunk I supposed. If it looks like I'm laughing I'm really just asking to leave.
swe bro
- Just a thought during work
One thing I think most people don't realize is that yes there is nothing wrong with doing a job only for money. But having a passion for it sure as hell does make it easier on the days where you don't even want to get up.
Taylor Swift
- Long Live
Will you take a moment? Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever, but if, God forbid, fate should step in. And force us into a goodbye, if you have children someday. When they post to the pictures, please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowds went wild, tell them how I hope they shine. Long live the walls we crashed through. I had the time of my life with you.
Unknown
- We Learn This One The Hard Way
I am not going to apologize for my fire: I wasn't born to be sugar and spice, silence and servitude. No one gets to decide when I'm too much. No one gets to dictate my volume, my passion, or my heart.
Unknown
- The opposite of anxious
The other day, I heard someone say that "The opposite of anxious is not relaxed. The opposite of anxious is present." This really resonated with me because trying to force myself to relax when I am anxious has never helped me, but living in the moment and embracing the present has.
Anonymous
- Do what makes you feel good
Ultimately, I cannot know a higher power or a lack thereof. The only thing I know for certain is that certain things I choose to do make me feel good, and I should probably continue doing those things. My hedonism is not necessarily unproductive for society, though. I have goals and aspirations and enjoy helping people, but only because having goals and aspirations and helping people makes me feel good.
