A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.
DrakeI have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother TeresaThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
James BaldwinIt’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EpictetusWe all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
Paul AusterI used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
Dolly PartonIt is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard ShawI have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.
AuroraI don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
Jim MattisWhen I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
Beyonce KnowlesMay we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David ThoreauNo, I’m not anguished and tormented.
George H. W. BushI dote on his very absence.
William ShakespeareWriting for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
Bruno MarsA trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise PascalI don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.
Bruno MarsI did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.
Kamala HarrisWell-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Bill GatesThis above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret AtwoodKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise PascalBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund BurkeWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergWhen life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor RooseveltMy lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
Brian EnoOur judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
AristotleNothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston ChurchillThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar WildeWe never love a person, but only qualities.
Blaise PascalAs our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas JeffersonHe who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
VoltaireU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BonoEven with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
Christopher HitchensOne who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert SchweitzerWhat the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘
Matthew McConaugheyI have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Cristiano RonaldoMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoI had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.
Adam SandlerTruth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiThe Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Bill GatesLove is a state of being.
Eckhart TolleMaking music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.
RihannaI love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da VinciWhen I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
Lady GagaI was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
Lady GagaThe best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
Michelle ObamaTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensCharacter is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
AristotleUnder the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.
Noam ChomskyWe are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor RooseveltI don’t think a song should be put in a category.
Billie EilishI grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘
Wayne DyerI like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
Dwayne JohnsonThe secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
George LucasThere is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert CamusIf it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.
Jocko WillinkThis lady is not for turning.
Margaret ThatcherViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiWith patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack Obama