“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the…”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“If you love someone, no part of them is revolting. Every bloody bit: beautiful.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.”— Sue Miller, amazon.com
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”— Albert Camus, gulfnews.com
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for u…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.”— Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org
“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can…”— Susane Colasanti, amazon.com
“It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattoos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be acce…”— fairycosmos, fairycosmos.tumblr.com
“This is something people refuse to admit to themselves: at a given point you can no longer do, but can only be and accept. And although that is something I learned a long time ago, I also learned that one can accept for oneself and not for others. This is vital, this is extremely vital. I could writ…”— Etty Hillesum, amazon.com