Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“Don’t make everyone know about your sadness.”
— John Steinbeck, Untitled
Tagged: Sadness, Depression
“Sometimes we can’t find the thing that will make us happy, because we can’t let go of the thing that was supposed to.”
— Robert Brault, Untitled
Tagged: Happiness
“Wait for someone who bumps mouths clumsily with yours cos they’re too busy smiling to kiss you properly. Yeah. Wait for that.”
— Azra Tabassum, Untitled
Tagged: Love
“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”
— Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Tagged: Letting Go
“Studies have shown that people convince themselves that they’re acting rationally when making major decisions— where to go to college, what to major in, who to kiss or not kiss—when they’re really acting on unconscious impulses. The human brain simply can’t handle all the complexities that life offers, so emotions kick in and end up making the call. And when that call blows, people don’t understand why.”
— Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds
Tagged: Choices, Life
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tagged: Self-Worth, empowerment
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”
— J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Tagged: Relationships, Journey
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
Tagged: Desire, Dreams
“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”
— Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
Tagged: self, Identity
“I decided to leave him alone because when I am sad I want to be left alone. So I didn’t say anything else.”
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Tagged: Relationships