“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much an extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Live like nature. Explode slowly, day by day, from the center outwards. You won’t notice how brightly you burn or how big you’ve grown until you look back. And then you will be amazed.”— pleasefindthis (Iain Thomas), amazon.com
“You are responsible to no one and to nothing, except to yourself and to the truth as you see it.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”— Gordon MacKenzie, amazon.com
“It’s better to have nobody than someone who is half there, or who doesn’t want to be there.”— Angelina Jolie, vanityfair.com
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.”— Will Smith, goodreads.com
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”— Bob Goff, twitter.com
“She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”— Sade Andria Zabala, lulu.com
“Give me blood and rage and a heart for horror; teach me to be tough enough to face this world still standing. Make a Fury of me.”— Elisabeth Hewer, amazon.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com