#ions

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#self-consciousness #social-life #life

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#intellectual #reluctant #life

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#emotions #families #family #family-therapy #memoir

Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27) ↗

— Donald Rothberg

#trust #life

Life’s gonna kick you in the butt. That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat) ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#eena #friends #friendship #hardship #help

I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-relationships #life

Some men are assholes and some men are cowards. What they both have in common is that both just stops talking to you, for no reason other than that they are assholes and cowards. ↗

— Trine H. Fredriksen

#assholes #broken-heart #cowards #hurt #life

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#history #life #simplicity #life

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#inspirational-quotes #introspection #life #meaning-of-life #purpose

The way to get people to love you is to show them that you love them. ↗

— Adrienne Maria Vrettos

#love #people #relationship #life