Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Tagged: Self-awareness, shyness
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
— Daniel Keyes, Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey
Tagged: Friendship, Happiness
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
— Sydney J. Harris, Unknown
Tagged: Happiness, motivation, Inspirational
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams
Tagged: Life, Philosophy
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Tagged: Love, Grief
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Tagged: Motivational, Self-Love
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Life, coming of age
“I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence.
I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.”
— Henry Rollins, Solipsist
Tagged: romance, Love