“I’m also okay if the most accurate description of me is nervous, and a little salty. But at least I know what I want to strive for.”— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com
“I’m truly a vacuum filled by the folks I’m with, and vapidly neutral in their absence. Something in me defaults to an easeful plasticity, a modularity”— Jonathan Lethem, amazon.com
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be a sad person. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“Maybe one day, I'll turn into an asshole. But there are too many out there already.”— Jennifer Lawrence, m.imdb.com
“I never play characters that are like me because I’m a boring person. I wouldn’t want to see me in a movie.”— Jennifer Lawrence, m.imdb.com
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“People aren't interested or attracted to just 'happy' and 'beautiful.' They're interested in people who are interested in things.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Accept that you won’t love EVERY body part. You can accept yourself and be yourself, and still dislike certain parts of your body and personality.”— Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen, theadventurouswriter.com
“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years go? What would she think of me now?’”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the pro…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com