“When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.”— Charles Baxter, amazon.com
“Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. Don’t let fiction tell you what to do. In the omnidirectional orgy gardens of Vlaxnoid, no one cares about your arm flab.”— Lindy West, theguardian.com
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“It was the process, not the deed, which was interesting. It was the completing, not the completion, which was really vital.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“It’s a long journey but if you focus on the mini milestones along the way you will find beauty in the struggle.”— Kobe Bryant, instagram.com
“You do not have to unburden your soul for everyone; it will be enough if you do that for those you love.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I've been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, amazon.com
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“Now listen here, I'm going to give you all a piece of advice because it's too late for this guy. Here's what I recommend to you. If you have someone that you think is the one...take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go t…”— Bill Murray, parade.com
“It’s just sort of a thankful feeling – that I’m alive and that people are glad I am . There’s nothing to say – you know everything about me, and that’s mostly what I think about – I seem always curiously interested in myself, and it’s so much fun to stand off and look at me”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com