Byron Katie Quotes

The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.

He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

My son always makes me feel vulnerable.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.