#let

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#completion #inspirational #love #relationships #inspirational

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#listen #most #never #people #talk

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#abraham lincoln #although #letters #lincoln #madman

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#also #barometer #forget #let us #may

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ↗

— Voltaire

#every #gives #indeed #kills #letter

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word! ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#asking #dirty #four-letter #friends #going

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#best way #letting #mind #play #problems

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#different #different world #fashion #football #obviously

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. ↗