“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”— Jack London, elephantjournal.com
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”— Gail Caldwell, amazon.com
“Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself.”— Yasmin Mogahed, amazon.com
“Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on Earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com
“People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”— Naomi Shihab Nye, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty and I know that that's not... rationally true; but some days, it's okay for things to not be rationally true.”— Hank Green, youtube.com