So I've Heard
On Love & Relationships
- Andrea Gibson -“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
On Love & Relationships
- Andrea Gibson -“and feelings were always smarter things than thoughts”
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- Pierre Jeanty -“And when you look at her, if you do not feel bless to have her. She is not yours to keep. She is another man’s blessing.”
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- Lauren Klarfeld -“A man or woman who travels in the end will never be kept. But if you understand that person well enough, they’ll always be by your side. They might have forgotten where their home is in this world – but you might just make them feel like the closest thing to feeling at home. And while they’ll be leaving country after country, this is the way you will never leave their heart.”
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- Rupi Kaur -“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
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- r.m. drake -“Sadly, no matter how many people you meet, it’s the ones who let you down who get the best part of you.”
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- -“Friendship is not about ‘supporting your friends even when you know they’re wrong.’ That’s not friendship. That’s being an enabler. That’s being an accomplice. Friendship is loving someone enough to tell them to stop being a goddamn idiot before they ruin their lives.”
On Love & Relationships
- Andrea Gibson -“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
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- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea -It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.”
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- Wayne Dyer -Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
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- -“Someone will come along. Someone who understands that you get jealous and anxious. Someone who knows the fers you have rooted deep in your past and holds you when you’re feeling scared. Someone who can’t dance, but dances with you anyway. They’ll love any gift you give them, even when it’s the wrong size and they’ll love anything you cook for them, even when it’s burnt. They’ll make you laugh until you cry, and know exactly what to say yo make you smile. They’ll leave you feeling helplessly, unapologetically happy as you fall asleep at night. You’ll wonder how you ever got so lucky. Just be patient. Someone will come along.”
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- Foer -“I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times, It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let you. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and need you constantly, and hoping you feel the same for me.”
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- Maya Angelou -“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
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- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch -“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
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- Unknown -“I fall in love with people’s passion. The way their eyes light up when they talk about the thing they love and the way they fill with light.”
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- Ray Bradbury -“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
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- Elizabeth Gilbert -People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so out of control that you have to transform your life…”
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- Vladimir Nabokav -“She wore poetry.”
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- Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist -“But that’s the funny thing about treasure—we assume everyone wants what we hold most dear.”
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- Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers -“I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.”
On Love & Relationships
- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch -“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
