#ip

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#relationships #life

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#leadership

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#madness #manic-depression #mental-illness #reality #life

But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. ↗

— John Grogan

#relationships #life

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