"People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know."

Emotion, Truth, Isolation, Honesty

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"People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know."

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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Emotion, Feeling, Depth, Threat, Survival

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Emotion, Fulfillment, Life, Words, Meaning

"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Heart, Freedom, Expression

"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Emotion, Tears, Heartbreak, Comfort, Strength

"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, 'there is joy is self-forgetfulness.' So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."

Helen Keller, American Author

Emotion, Isolation, Fate, Hope, Joy

"You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Emotion, Pleasure, Memory, Life

"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Loneliness, Self, Disgust, Company

"Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Emotion, Feelings, Spiritual, Control

"Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Emotion, Hatred, Pain, Self, Harm

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"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"

Memory

"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."

Motivation

"There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do."

Healing

"Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?"

Love

"But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?"

Forgiveness

"Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting."

Healing

"That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip."

Life

"I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him."

Romance

"She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting."

Identity

"If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it."

Family