Each drop hits the pavement;A soft, incoherent shatter below. Here I stand in torturous observance Of this strange disappearing act.

— Katie Douglas

Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else.

— Oliver Markus

Every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears

— Kami Garcia

Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.

— Bryant McGill

Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

— Terry Tempest Williams

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

— Greg Rucka

For years, I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn't want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.

— Rosamund Lupton

God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson