"There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change."

-- David Levithan

#Decision Quotes #Get Better Quotes #Belief Quotes

“The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.”
“To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.”
“The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 2, 2001.
“The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.”
“One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.”

Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc
“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.”
“She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.”
“I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.”

Source : "Backstage With Karlie Kloss At The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2011.

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