“Preferable to accepting one's insignificance is imagining the others hate you.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“The secret to finding love was not to actually look for it, but to heal the things that were preventing you from seeing and receiving it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The things that don't leave your head are not the ones that show you what's 'meant to be'; they're the things that show you what you're still not okay with on your own.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The point of anything is not what you get from having done it, it's who you become from having gone through it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Do you know why you don't have the things you once thought you wanted? Do you know why you're not the person you once thought you'd be? Because you don't want those things anymore. Not badly enough. If you did, you'd have and be them.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You owe nothing to your younger self. You are not responsible for the person you once thought you'd be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Let go of the expectation that if you work on yourself enough, you won't struggle anymore. If you work on yourself enough, you'l understand what the struggle is for.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you think love is something that exists anywhere but within your own mind and heart, you will never have it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When we think other people love us, we give ourselves permission to feel love.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“There will be periods in your life when sex will answer a lot of questions for you. It will make everything clearer. There will also be times, however, when sex enables your downfall and leaves you feeling more devastated and confused than you were to begin with. That’s just the way it is. Sex serve…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com