Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
The secret to living long is to have something to live for.
It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.
underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing
We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving
Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.
Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
The words that matter always stay.
There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.
I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.
I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
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