“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.tumblr.com
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”— Edwin M. McMahon, Peter A. Campbell, amazon.com
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in anoth…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”— Daniel Franzese, goodreads.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
“I am the one who got so good at burning the bridges before they could burn me and I am also the one who learnt to stay even long after they leave. I am messier than your room and as clean as the mountains.”— Kriti. G, wnq-writers.com
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”— Cheryl Rainfield, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo, goodreads.com
“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com