Quotes Tagged "life-lessons"

Show me the best way of doing it instead of mocking me every time you watching me trying

That's the thing about living. No two people end up doing the exact same thing, and that's a labyrinth we'll never understand.

You have to become a champion in getting quickly out of negative situations, because life will not spare you of them.

When you are with somebody who hides being seen with you, you are worse than alone. Even you are not with you.

The physics of life is that every choice forecloses other choices.

For as long as I shall live, I look forward to never growing old with you.

The spiking temps spiked a fever for cool commons, so I made a plate of tapenade, bruschetta, and prosciutto, with orange creamsicle martinis flowing like a Zen fountain. It was hard for me to believe that I woke up that morning fighting back tears for no reason and all kinds of reasons. It is still... hard for me to believe that you have become no reason, at all.

Today I hate myself for loving you, and I hate myself for not being strong enough to love you back... when I know broken boys like you need me, too.

Σήμερα πάντως ζω. Ξέρεις πόσο σπουδαίο είναι αυτό; Τώρα είμαστε μαζί! Σου σφίγγω τα χέρια, σε κοιτάζω στα μάτια. Μην αφήνεις ποτέ σου το σήμερα να μαραίνεται. Μην αφήνεις τη ζωή να χάνεται σαν την άμμο μέσα από τα δάχτυλά σου. Ζήσε. Κατάλαβες; Ζήσε! Μη βάζεις, το Σήμερα ενέχυρο σ' αυτό που εννοούνε μερικοί μουχλιασμένοι Αύριο. Το Σήμερα είναι δικό σου, φίλε. Αγάπησέ το!

But let me tell you one more thing, Paddy Moran. This comes from hard experience. Be careful. This may be the fourth-largest city in the United States, but everyone knows everyone here. It's a bad place to fall.

I have never seen as far as those times when I have looked through someone else's perspective.

Tornadoes devastate and leave a mess behind, just like your ending, so the instant that 'Psychlone' sees you rebuilding, she's going to spin completely out of control, every time. You can't get sucked into the same vortex twice if you eject the monster from being it's own victim; but until then, I'd pull in your rocking chairs, lock down your trash cans and recycling bins, and take your potted azaleas inside... ... if I were you.

I save a piece of paper that has the indentation of your name on it— your signature... ...move. I knew that I shouldn't have let you push down so hard. Your memory left a mark on so many pages after, if you couldn't tell, as I publish again to press on....

In the few minutes that he sleeps, I am with myself again— that part of me that makes me... ...me, which is sometimes you.

I've lost touch with myself. It seems like she and I have not touched base for ages, I can't remember the last time I talked to her, honest to God. She's always been my best friend—my vicarious better half. It's such a shame, really... I wish I knew what she was up to these days. I really, REALLY do. It's not as though you can close a bond like ours when the room gets too messy; you can't just shut the door. It's common knowledge they'll only open a window ...and sneak out. I don't know where she is now. She could be on a train to the other coast, for all I know. I quit listening to her wishes a long time ago. Shame on me.

Don't keep coloring in their lines waiting for them to sign on the dotted... for you will become... ...overdrawn.

Every time you lie to me, I still know your truth. Every time you tell me you're not allowed to love me anymore, I can still hear the gospel behind your tongue. And, that is not my silent desperation; that is your desperate silence.

I have to know if you'll read this the same way that I wrote it, because if you can't, then you're nothing more than a rough draft that I don't care to edit.

I stopped telling you all of my secrets when you became my biggest one.

Books are like lovers; you always love the latest, more than the previous, but you always fear the latest is going to release too soon.