“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“At the end of the day, life’s about realising one’s human potential. I don’t know if I’ve realised mine, but I’ve certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.”— Linton Kwesi Johnson, facebook.com
“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.”— Yoko Ono, rollingstone.com
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”— Deborah Reber, amazon.com
“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.”— Helen Mirrin, amazon.com
“You know, sometimes when you’re too close to someone, it’s hard to see who they really are.”— Kirsten Miller, amazon.com
“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“Nobody can save you but yourself—and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning—this is it.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”— Deborah Reber, amazon.com
“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like…”— Kalyn RoseAnne, kalynroseanne.tumblr.com
“I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“Anyone who cares about you has to realize that you need a little looking after, nothing else really matters.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”— Wilma Rudolph, famous-quotes.cc
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”— Marion Cotillard, vogue.com
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com