160 Quotes by Lori Gottlieb

Our notion of the future can be just as powerful a roadblock to change as our notion of the past.

The nature of life is change, but the nature of people is to resist change.

Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

You’ll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not,” she said. “What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won’t get today back.

I’m smiling, Sherlock, because I know exactly what’s bothering my wife!” “Ah!” I reply. “So – ” “Wait, wait. I’m getting to the best part,” he interrupts. “So, like I said, I really do know what’s wrong, but I’m not that interested in hearing another complaint. So this time, instead of asking, I decide I’m going to –.

You won’t get today back.

Sitting with Rita, I was reminded that the heart is just as fragile at seventy as it is at seventeen. The vulnerability, the longing, the passion – they’re all there in full force. Falling in love never gets old.