Someone - Quotes
The world is so empty if we think of it just as a collection of mountains, rivers and cities; but to find someone somewhere who sees eye to eye with us, someone with whom we can continue to commune in silence, makes the whole world into a populated garden.
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night.
You’re crazy. You fall down, stand up and walk again,
your ankles and your knees move pain that wanders around,
but you start again as if you had wings.
The ditch calls you, but it’s no use you’re afraid to stay,
and if someone asks why, maybe you turn around and say
that a woman and a sane death a better death wait for you.
If the sand has drained out for someone, don`t hold him back, because you can`t give him anything to replace life. [...] To love, you have to know how to kill, too.
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen, or because writing will mend something broken inside you, or bring something back to life.
What is a teacher? I`ll tell you: it isn`t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
Some friends don`t understand this. They don`t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you`re wonderful just the way you are. They don`t understand that I can`t remember anyone ever saying that to me.
Making someone hate you so quickly [...] that`s a rare gift. Usually you have to know a person better first.
I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you`re single among a room full of couples.
Your time is limited, so don`t waste it living someone else`s life. [...] Don`t let the noise of others` opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
It`s all right to love someone who doesn`t love you back, as long as they`re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
That`s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they`re pretty. It`s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.