“There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach.”— Charles Yu, Lisa Joy, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“I’d moved away from everything I knew and loved at seventeen in spite of how scared I was. I wondered if I would still have it in me to do something I found so daunting. Aren’t you supposed to get more independent as you get older? Shouldn’t I be bolder, more self-sufficient?”— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com
“Trying to make sense of your life is trying to see if the old story checks out, if the person you once were would be happy with the life they lead today. You're looking for answers in people that don't exist.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”— Amy Sedaris, amazon.com
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your…”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”— Joshua Slocum, amazon.com
“You know what your problem is? You're smart. Too smart. You overthink, because your mind moves at a million miles a minute. You're sad because you're not fooled by the world like anyone else. You don't get along with most people, because they don't see things the way you do. You think you're dumb be…”— Unknown, facebook.com
“Buying a self-help book is usually the second-to-last step to surrendering to a crisis of self, the last step being therapy and the first step being a gym membership, or at least a Zumba DVD or a pamphlet on the Learning Annex.”— Michael Bennett MD, amazon.com
“Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness- machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com