“Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”— Rabindranath Tagore, paulocoelhoblog.com
“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”— R.D. Ronald, amazon.com
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“My desire and my need are different — I hardly know how to say it or explain it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”— Heath L. Buckmaster, amazon.com
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”— Roland Barthes, amazon.com
“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Sometimes you think you want something, when in reality you need to let it go.”— Marie Rutkoski, amazon.com
“Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.”— Ali ibn Abi Talib, goodreads.com
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”— Michelle Hodkin, amazon.com
“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”— Bertrand Russell, users.drew.edu