“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“One gets so used to one’s own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”— Diane Setterfield, amazon.com
“But I am somebody... I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.”— Howard Thurman, amazon.com
“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try accepting yourself and see what happens.”— Louise Hay, amazon.com
“Rather than worrying, what is gender, really? or what is race, really? I think we should begin by asking (both in the theoretical and political sense) what, if anything, we want them to be.”— Sally Haslanger, mit.edu