“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”— Douglas Pagels, amazon.com
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”— Marilyn Monroe, goodreads.com
“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”— Jim Morrison, youtube.com
“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every se…”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I’m a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I don’t really want to hear about your strife if you don’t have any perspective on it.”— Scaachi Koul, hazlitt.net
“We forget that we are loveable. We forget that we’re desired. We forget that we are anything other than the hard-shelled, busybody workaholics that we’ve all been trained to behave as. We forget that we, too, merit adoration.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth about the women who are forced to play these interesting chapters is that they are doing so in the memoirs of men who never deserved them. That the really good story, the story worth telling, has been theirs all along.”— Alana Massey, amazon.com
“People aren’t curious about themselves. People don’t look under the hood, they don’t go for a tune-up, so they make the same mistakes over and over again, all the while being mystified that they’ve found themselves on I’m Fucked road again.”— Ryan O'Connell, mylivejournalsucks.tumblr.com
“The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.”— Carrie Fisher, esquire.com
“You’re only as sick as your secrets. If it is a secret—anything that makes you sort of shame-based—if you can claim it, it has a lot of less power over you.”— Carrie Fisher, palmbeachillustrated.com
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com