“The most important thing to remember about Idealists is this: one and all, they are incurable romantics.”— David Keirsey, amazon.com
“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”— Pearl S. Buck, en.wikiquote.org
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”— Robert Holden, books.google.com
“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”— Paulo Coelho, google.com
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”— Fran Lebowitz, books.google.com
“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them…”— Chloe Rattray, amazon.com
“Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.”— Gangaji, gangaji.org
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”— G. K. Chesterton, books.google.com
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”— Anaïs Nin, en.wikiquote.org
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads”— Erica Jong, books.google.com