“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“'How can I tell,' said the man, 'that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?’”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”— Ali Benjamin, amazon.com
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.”— Stephen Holden, nytimes.com
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”— JK Rowling, amazon.com
“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
“I used to think our story was one for the books, and I was right. I’m still right. Our story is one for the books because I lived in a world that only the two of us knew. There were spectators, but none of them really knew. If I would be a book in your library, I’d be this: The book you always opene…”— Cath Pascual, 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
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality.”— Steven Pressfield, amazon.com