Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn.”
— Greg Mortenson, Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Tagged: Listening, Learning
“The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you’ve accomplished that, you’ve accomplished a lot.”
— Guy Ritchie, Madonna surprises NY College film students
Tagged: Love, Uncoditional love
“Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you crackling to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other’s hands.”
— Tana French, In the Woods
Tagged: Love, Commitment
“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
— Colleen Hoover, Confess
Tagged: Relationships, Friendship
“Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another – they have more individuation work to do first. Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives- they have another path and purpose to walk first. Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organize reality. Because so many of us carry shame, we have a tendency to personalize love’s leavings, triggered by the rejection and feelings of abandonment. But this is not always true. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us. Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe. Sometimes they know something we don’t – they know their limits at that moment in time. Real love is no easy path – readiness is everything. May we grieve loss without personalizing it. May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover.”
— Jeff Brown, Untitled
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Priorities
“You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, because you’ve seen them, like, for real. And then you reach out, and suddenly they are just… gone. You thought you belonged together. You thought they were yours, but they’re not.”
— Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead
Tagged: Relationships, Attachment
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
— Dr. Seuss, Unknown
Tagged: World, Relaionships
“Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.”
— Paul Bloom, The origins of pleasure
Tagged: TED, Talks, Happiness, Philosophy, Psychology, Science
“You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes’. Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You have to take time and trouble.”
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Tagged: Love, Choices
“The way people come into your life when you need them, it’s wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It’s like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.”
— Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan Discusses Fame, Hendrix and His New Album, 'Soul To Soul'
Tagged: Meeting People, Happenstance