“I am above and beyond the limits of your vocabulary, the shortness of your sight.”— James Helenski, okrun.tumblr.com
“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered.”— Dorianne Laux, amazon.com
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“All of us want to realize ourselves as distinct persons, but we also want others — lots of others — to know that we are our own distinct selves. We do not want to be unique all alone.”— , amazon.com
“If you experience life as a communist or a capitalist, as a Muslim or a Jew, you are experiencing life in a prejudiced, slanted way; there is a barrier, a layer of fat between Reality and you because you no longer see and touch it directly.”— Anthony De Mello, amazon.com
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com
“I thought you understood me, but it was just me misunderstanding you.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“Hers is a soul so scattered it could never be anything but what it was born to be.”— Eden Arielle Gordon, wordsdance.com
“You are hard to look at not because you glow, but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. You are the distance to the ground, you are what people fear to fall into, you are what people risk their lives to see. And when someone does finally see you, it is because they were courageous enough to…”— Lillian Shelton, helladopeprncs.tumblr.com
“I am a broken bell jar. I am Plath preheating the oven. I am all the things I once feared. Mostly, I am nothing.”— Anonymous, speaking-secrets.tumblr.com
“My skin wears winter so well - I liberated anonymity from my fingers the moment it asked and still, the cold slept quietly beneath my palms.”— Orooj-e-Zafar, sulacollective.com
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Why do I need to read sixty minutes in the morning, and swim twenty laps in the afternoon, and write a thousand words at night, in order to feel that a twenty-four-hour period has been well used?”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com