#our

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#being-confident #being-in-love #being-strong #being-yourself #how-to-get-a-girl

Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else. And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer. Then they die. ↗

— Mary Beth Miller

#suicide #why #courage

It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#be-yourself #happiness #life #success #experience

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#arises #begins #does #experience #follow

Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #success #experience

...looking back, has this journalism experience been a nightmare for you?' 'Not entirely.' 'Did you enjoy any of it?' 'I liked going to the library,' he says. 'I think I prefer books to people -- primary sources scare me. ↗

— Tom Rachman

#experience

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humour #jeeves #jeeves-and-wooster #wodehouse #wooster

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience. ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#humour #sex #virginity #experience

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#journeys #trees #experience

I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#fourth-grave-beneath-my-feet #death