#ps

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#religion

A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#psychology #inspirational

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#life #psychology #inspirational

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn. ↗

— André Gide

#respect #rose #women #respect

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#on-writing #pseudonym #freedom

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#basketball #black #dressed #golf #hockey

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#kent #miracle #sam #steps #chance

We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there? ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#grave #halfway #timmie #relationships

Words of love cast from thy lips reach another heart at lightning speed. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#heart #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #lightning-speed

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood. ↗

— Joe McNally

#parenting #relationships #photography