Quote Tag

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent – something like an infant – deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that’s taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

I wouldn’t tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn’t want to bring her down.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Why can’t people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it’s sappy?