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"I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I’m not in the right place.” — Franz Kafka

"Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about." — Osho

"It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it." — Oscar Wild

"I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.“ - Ferdinand de Saussure

“People will disappoint you and wrong you, but they will also defend you and fight for you and bowl you over with kindness. We are all such radiant ******** — we have to remember this and love one another for it. And even when it seems impossible, we have to be good to one another, to extend an open hand, to try to bring the light back in to illuminate the darkness.”–Cody Gohl

"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.“ — Haruki Murakami

“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked or impressed that you’re baring your soul, while to you it’s nothing, because you know you’ve twenty more layers to go.” - Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage

“You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.” ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

“If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates

“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”— Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both." — Markus Zusak

"Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful." — Vincent Van Gogh

"Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves." — Matt Kahn

"When I was growing up and things were a mess I put a book over my face like an oxygen mask. I am a writer because I wanted to secure my own air supply." — Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

"There was something terrible in me sometimes at night I could see it grinning at me.“ — William Faulkner, from ‘The Sound and The Fury’

"I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous person, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the person in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable."— Henry Miller

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.“— Stephen King

"It's like, human beings can be so lovely, but they can also be the ugliest creatures throughout the land. Sometimes I want them near; sometimes I want them to stay away. I love the people who allow me to be myself. I question the ones who don’t allow people to be, as they are. Isn’t the root of love acceptance? They must not understand that. Maybe they don’t care about love like I do. Maybe I care about it too much. Sometimes I don’t even feel like I am a human being. Sometimes, it feels like I am connected to things that I can’t even understand. I know it’s much deeper than I’ll ever understand. I don’t care to grasp it, I just want to live it, whatever it is." — Sylvester McNutt, This Is What Real Love Feels Like

"I find beauty in old piano keys and fraying guitar strings; I find beauty in lonely forests and dark caves, in abandoned bookstores and dusty libraries; I find beauty in music that means something and in people who are passionate. I find beauty in things that make time stop for just a second.“ — The World Moves Too Fast Sometimes

“I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.” ― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

"I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it’s uncool. It’s uncool to have passion. It’s so much easier to lose when you’ve shown everyone how much you don’t care if you win or lose. It’s much harder to lose when you show that you care, but you’ll never win unless you also stand to lose. I’ve said it before. Don’t be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine." — Tom Hiddleston

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
–Roald Dahl

"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.“ — Veronica Roth, Insurgent

"I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile." - Freddie Mercury

“When choosing between two evils, I always pick the one I haven’t tried before.”–Mae West

"She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cozy bed, and to love and be loved in return." — Starra Neely Blade

"I’ve never known what I felt. Whenever people spoke to me of such and such emotion and described it, I always felt they were describing something in my soul, but when I thought about it later, I always doubted. I never know if what I feel I am is what I really am or merely what I think I am. I’m a character of my own plays." - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in." — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive.” –Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Just once do what others say you can’t do and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” – James R. Cook

“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.” –Jamie Tworkowski

“If you judge people you have no time to love them.” –Mother Theresa

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”–Howard Thurman