“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.…”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“We have to process the things that happen in our lives, and sometimes we do that by justifying them as 'meant to be.' We can map out the moments that led to any significant life event, but when it comes to making decisions about the future, that way of thinking becomes a handicap. We’re so used to p…”— Leah Singerman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment — we are all defined by something we can’t change.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“I’m learning to just let them be, to let them align with my life when the time is right, to the let the universe bring them to me without having to run after them; because if you have to run after something, it means that it doesn’t want to stand still, it doesn’t want to be caught, it doesn’t want…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everyone has doubts. Everyone freaks out about where they are in life. But that’s a good thing. You’re open to change and growth.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”— Po Bronson, amazon.com
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com
“I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Be the girl who travels and reawaken your sense of hope in the world. Let it change you, transform you, and give you a sort of longing that few other things ever will.”— Jerrica Peterson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You suck at moving on because you aren’t willing to change your own life. You keep waiting for someone, something to change it for you. And when that doesn’t happen you just sit, still waiting and still transfixed on the thing you claimed to be letting go of in the first place.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven’t met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you need two more years of life experience before you can make your masterpiece into something that will feel real and true and raw to other people. Sometimes you’re not fall…”— Jamie Varon, medium.com
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“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.com
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com
“Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, u…”— Lena Dunham, amazon.com
“But here’s a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the…”— Joesph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, youtube.com