“Even I am kinder to myself than I used to be — remember those old agonies?”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”— Theodore Isaac Rubin, amazon.com
“At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“I am not a book that can be read, but rather an unending series of novels.”— Lynette Simeone, wnq-writers.com
“Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.”— Rae Earl, amazon.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.”— Enrique Vila-Matas, amazon.com
“The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com