“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Today, my life is awesome.
I don’t want to think about tomorrow.
Or the day after that.
So I repeat to myself: Today, my life is awesome.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Don't judge each other. We all have our own shit. Keep your eyes on yours and your nose out of everyone else's unless you're invited in. And when you get the invitation, help, don't judge.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Just when you think you know someone, they change. Or you change. Or maybe you both change. And that changes everything.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I’m not saying you shouldn’t pursue dreams and goals. Just don’t forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don’t bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I know that you’re sad right now. Grieve, but don’t hold onto it. Grief smothers out life. Let it go. Remember me and be happy. You have an incredible life ahead of you. Make the most of every minute. Starting right now.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I've always been pretty good at accepting the whole of someone, the good with the bad. I see it all, but try not to let it cloud my judgement. People are complicated. Life is complicated.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I love you more than you could possibly imagine.”
"My imagination is endless,”
“Good. So is my love.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“SOME PEOPLE EXCEL IN THE ART OF HUGGING. THEY SOMEHOW MANAGE TO HUG YOU WITH THEIR WHOLE BEING, NOT JUST THEIR ARMS. THEIR WARMTH SURROUNDS EVERY INCH OF YOU. IT MAKES YOU FEEL CHERISHED AND COMFORTED.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You do epic like no one else.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“We all have to fight to make the most of the life we're given.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Imagine for a moment that you were free of all the expectations in your life. What would you do? How would you live your life with no one watching? What would your future look like?”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Your body is a temple. You don’t shit on the temple.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“She’s the poster child for positivity. She’s a freaking ray of sunshine. She doesn’t just look on the bright side … she lives there.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I’m doomed. Guitar players just do it for me.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You’re an amazing woman … a terrible influence, but an amazing woman.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I would've missed out on some of the best moments of my life if I weren't spontaneous. Honestly, I try not to think about the future too much. I'm a huge fan of the present.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Oh, fuck it. Yes, I'm in love with her. I honestly can't remember a time that I wasn't.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Smiles aren’t always happy, but hers is. It’s open, content, and confident.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“He says what’s on his mind and he doesn’t hold back. Life would be so much easier if everyone were that way.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I feel like I’ve been asleep for years and I’ve only just woken up.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“think I just fell in love with butterflies.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Fancy hides a lot, while simple unapologetically puts it out there for everyone to see.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“I've given up on life. Or life's given up on me. Either way I'm done." And then his voice hitches and quiets. "Finish me.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“You give me courage I never knew I had.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Bright Side
“Ambition left to itself, like a Rupert Murdoch, always becomes tedious, its only object the creation of larger and larger empires of control; but a true vocation calls us out beyond ourselves; breaks our heart in the process and then humbles, simplifies and enlightens us about the hidden, core nature of the work that enticed us in the first place. We find that all along, we had what we needed from the beginning and that in the end we have returned to its essence, an essence we could not understand until we had undertaken the journey.”
― David Whyte, quote from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“I understand—” I gasp. “. . . and you will not stand in my way.” “I will not stand in your way,” I parrot. It’s all I can manage.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“Sometimes it seems that a person comes into the world with a missing piece. The piece that makes them human just isn’t there.”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Source
“What old illusion of hope is not here forever repeated! Says the soul of the toiler
to itself, "I shall soon be free. I shall be in the ways and the hosts of the merry. The
streets, the lamp, the lighted chamber set for dining are for me. The theatres, the halls,
the parties, the ways of rest and the paths of song—these are mine in the night." Though
all humanity be still enclosed in the shops, the thrill runs abroad. It is in the air. The
dullest feel something which they may not always express or describe. It is the lifting of
the burden of toil.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
“When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.”
― Kevin Wilson, quote from The Family Fang
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