#ip

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life. ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#life

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ↗

— Confucius

#principles #life

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved. ↗

— Daphne Rose Kingma

#life

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#relationships #life

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#education #ideas #education

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#domination #life #love #relationships #life

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#dog #love #relationship #romance #truth

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers. ↗

— André P. Brink

#endings #relationships #dreams

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. ↗

— Helen Keller

#duty #life

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#companionship #life