“Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Change, Stagnancy, Growth, Chaos, Timing
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Paradox, misfit, Self-awareness
“Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt.”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.comTagged: Youth, rebel, newness, Lust
“Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell. We passed the bottle back and forth as I waited for the cab.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.comTagged: Goodness, Life, Drinking, Relationships
““Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -”— Emily Dickinson, poetryfoundation.orgTagged: Hope
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.”— Vera Nazarian, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”— Shannon Alder, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, Miracles, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy
“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Summer, Growing Up, Hope, Future
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Future, Rebuilding Your Life, Life, Change
“I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Tired, Tired Of Being Tired, Enclosed, Breaking Free, Craving Escape
“I flipped through my identities like a card catalog, selecting the one that fit that day, that hour, that minute. I learned how to disappear.”— Stacy Pershall, amazon.comTagged: Indetity, Finding Yourself, Growing Pains, Personality
“Learning to sleep in new places was an ability you were supposed to lose as you grew older, but I never had it.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: Sleep, Growing Up, Change, ability
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Harry Potter, Youth, Ageism, Wisdom, Millenials
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.comTagged: Growth, Innocence
“We are all going forward. None of us are going back.”— Richard Siken, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Writing, Moving Forward, Life, Progress
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Escapism, Growing Pains, Finding Yourself
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.comTagged: The Art of Awareness
“The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.”— David Richo, amazon.comTagged: Trust, Relationships, Self-Trust, Love, Intimacy
“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: ENFP, Change, Movement, Moving On, Places
“The ache to remember what it is to be alive, is just as beautiful today.”— Orooj-e-Zafar, themissingslate.comTagged: Inspirational, Self love, strength, Life, Perspective
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.comTagged: Life, Emotion, Trying, Grief, Pain
“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”— Alain de Botton, goodreads.comTagged: Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”— Mark Twain, barrypopik.comTagged: Education, Perspective, Ignorance, Knowledge, Growing Pains
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”— Albert Camus, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Colours, Overwhelming Beauty
“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Finding Yourself
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”— Alan Watts, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”— Garrison Keillor, amazon.comTagged: Age, Answers, Philosophy, Life, maturity