160 Quotes by Lori Gottlieb

In the best goodbyes, there’s always the feeling that there’s something more to say.

There’s no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn’t be ranked, because pain is not a contest.

Perhaps men apologize preemptively, by holding their tears back.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. – James Baldwin.

Marriage isn’t a passion-fest; it’s more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

I remember saying that there was a difference between examining and dwelling, and if we’re cut off from our feelings, just skating on the surface, we don’t get peace or joy – we get deadness.

Relationships in life don’t really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you’ve been close to lives on somewhere inside you.

You’re going to have to feel pain – everyone feels pain at times – but you don’t have to suffer so much. You’re not choosing the pain, but you’re choosing the suffering.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?