“'Everything is connected’ was probably a phrase first coined by an Old Soul.”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I used to waste my time dreaming of being alive, now I only waste it dreaming of you.”— Fall Out Boy, open.spotify.com
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new under…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”— 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
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”— Sylvia Plath, books.google.com
“Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra--I have no idea what to do with my life.”— Suzanne Selfors, amazon.com
“My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.”— Sebastian Faulks, amazon.com
“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“Innately, the Old Soul carries a sense of world-wariness as he stands on the outside, looking in. As an observer, the Old Soul like the Steppenwolf, feels an all-pervading sense of alienation. He is the ultimate Outsider who is both in the world, but not quite of the world at the same time.”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”— Parker J. Palmer, Parker J. Palmer, amazon.com