Love gets so sexualized in our world. We start to feel like there is no love outside of romantic love. There are lots of wonderful love stories that have nothing to do with sex or romance, and I guess I wanted to write one of those.
John Green (on writing Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan)
Source: natsandnatsandnats
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day the child forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Nothing is for sure until it is.
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God’s great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayers.
Compassion is not a sloppy, sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick…it is an absolutely practical belief that, regardless of a person’s background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
Neil Kinnock, b.1942, Welsh Labour politician, from his maiden speech in 1970
Source: kt-lately
To most physicians, my illness is a routine incident in their rounds, while for me it’s the crisis of my life. I would feel better if I had a doctor who at least perceived this incongruity.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Source: emilytraeger
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
Never stop learning.
Source: motherrose
The L Word
Doc Sorrow blogged a photo which I assume was her tattoo. What she wrote beneath it was something I wanted to reblog, but I realize how people get when you reblog their photos.
So instead, I will provide a link to that post here. It’s a cool looking tattoo if you’re into those. And if you’re not, it’s still a cool looking tattoo.
The post was about the L word.
A gentleman had sent in a Dear Sugar letter. And here is part of the reply he received:
Do you realize that your refusal to utter the word love to your lover has created a force field all its own? Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel.
So release yourself from that. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word love to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.
We’re all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it’s dinnertime.
Sometimes a satisfying lie… can do more good than the awful truth.
