“Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.”— Candice Proctor, amazon.com
“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I hope you heal. I hope you find yourself again. I hope you find something that burns a fire in your soul. I hope you find the rays of sunlight even on your darkest days. I want you to know that you’re going to be okay.”— Shivani Sonawane, thoughtcatalog.com
“I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and… content. I want to stop wondering if I’ll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose, one that I can look at without feeling I’m less than I was.”— Ellis O'Neal, amazon.com
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.”— Candice Proctor, amazon.com
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”— Quotemadness, quotemadness.com
“We like companionship, see, but we can’t stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“because I’m 2,000 miles away with only my heartbeat keeping me company, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You were young, And you were searching, even then. But you were trying to make homes out of temporary people. Trying to find yourself in the body of a stranger who could never fill you, never complete you, never satisfy the longing in your chest to be both protected and set free, both loved and let…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I stayed in the street and stared into the expanse. A sky that promised new beginnings with every flickering star.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“She felt the interstate shift under her feet each step, a promise of who she would one day become.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“On nights when you feel like your mouth Is filled with scar tissue when your fists are heavier than your clay heart, remember the broken that does not need replacement remember the lungs that pound air in a body too tired to kiss the sun tell yourself you are still working on it say healing, say tak…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com