Joan S. Ryan
- Personal Finance
The definition of self-esteem is self-respect and recognition from others, while self-actualization is the need to reach one's full potential, to grow, and to be creative.
Just Living Here
- The Word "Love"
I would rather type a quote with the word "I" ten billion times then write another quote with the word "love" in it ever again. Its not like I hate it, I just think that the romantic kind of love is overrated.
Just Living Here
- The Word "Love"
I would rather type a quote with the word "I" ten million times then write another quote with the word "love" in it ever again. Its not like I hate love, I just think that the romantic kind of love is extremely overrated sometimes.
Juice WRLD
- Robbery
She told me put my heart in the bag and nobody gets hurt. Now I'm running from her love, I'm not fast so I'm making it worse. Now I'm digging up a grave, from my past. I'm a whole different person it's a gift and a curse, but I cannot reverse it.
Just Living Here
- The Word "I"
It seems that almost every single quote on this website has the word "I" in it. It makes sense, most animals are self-centered and at the end of the day all humans really are are animals with the ability to vocalize that.
Gary Paulsen
- Brian's Winter
It stopped him, the idea of giving thanks. At first his mind just stopped and he thought, for what? For the plane crash, for being here? I should thank somebody for that? Then a small voice, almost a whisper, came into his mind and all it said was: It could have been worse; you could have been down in the plane with the pilot.
Yoko Ono
- A Dream
One of the most famous quotes by Japanese multimedia artist Yoko Ono is "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
Jennifer Worth
- The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Now and then in life, love catches you unaware, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in a while you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.
Jennifer Worth
- The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
I have a theory that all human babies are born prematurely. Given the human life span - three score years and ten - to be comparable with other animals of similar longevity, human gestation should be about two years. But the human head is so big by the age of two that no woman could deliver it. So our babies are born prematurely, in a state of utter helplessness.
Jennifer Worth
- The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.
Just Living Here
- He Knew
As he looked at me, I couldn't help but turn my head away, he knew everything. He didn't forgive me and never would. I had taken his only chance of having children and crushed it into the dust.
Just Living Here
- It Is Raining Again
I am sitting in my desk while the last twenty minutes of a movie I've never seen plays in the background. It is not raining anymore, but I can tell that it will start again soon. There is a big window next to me so at least I have a good view; I just might get struck by lightning though.
George Orwell
- Duckspeak
"There is a word in Newspeak," said Syme, "I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise."
