“It takes a strong person to do their own thing and not wait for anybody else to validate their existence.”— Steven Aitchison, goodreads.com
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.”— Kurt Vonnegut, chicagotribune.com
“We’re so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.”— Jean Klein, amazon.com
“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, an…”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.”— Reyna Biddy, twitter.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
“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com