“I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very su…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, 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
“Because you are uncertain about yourself, the world reflects that uncertainty back to you and the reflection begins to haunt you. Your uncertainty is haunting you, but it is merely your reflection in the mirror.”— Chogyam Trungpa, amazon.com
“The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.”— Elie Wiesel, 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
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.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
“I’ve always liked moonless nights best. It’s easier to say things in the dark. It’s easier to be yourself.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”— Richard Carlson, amazon.com
“I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.”— Roger Zelazny, amazon.com