38 Quotes by Matthew Thomas

A stronger deterrent to infidelity even than love was the desire to maintain a stable household, a stress-free life.

The little sedimentary deposits of his need had piled at her feet until they blocked her view of him.

Negative thoughts back you into a corner,” her mother said to her, smiling, one afternoon after returning from a picnic with the baby in Flushing Meadow Park. “They multiply and surround you. Don’t think of what you don’t have. Try to focus on the simple pleasures.

The point wasn’t always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

The people who lived in this building had figured out something important about life, and she’d stumbled upon their secret. There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be content to stay where you were. She imagined more places like this, hidden behind walls or stands of trees, places where people kept their secrets to themselves.

You want much from life, and life will give you much, but there are things it won’t give you, and victory today is one of them. This will be one defeat; more will follow. Victories will follow too. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Negative thoughts back you into a corner. They multiply and surround you. Don’t think of what you don’t have. Try to focus on the simple pleasures.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. – King Lear.

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.