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“Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.”
― Freidrich Nietzsche

“Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can’t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She’d spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you’d done in a past life you didn’t need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn’t be ready to do now.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I don't want to lead. Never have. Some people might consider such a trait as a weakness, but I don't. Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses takes a lot of soul searching and honesty--something not everyone will take the time to explore. Doing so might reveal things they'd rather leave undiscovered.”
― C.J. Ellisson

“.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them”
― David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

“Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;”
― Fredrick Douglass

“The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she
had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes badly. And they had covered the distances.
For most of the summer, they had been unattached. Nobody knew who they were or what they were doing. It didn't matter
what they did, as long as they all stayed together. Dicey remembered that feeling, of having things pretty much her own way.
And she remembered the feelings of danger. It was a little bit like being a wild animal, she thought to herself.
Dicey missed that wildness. She knew she would never have it again.
And she missed the sense of Dicey Tillerman against the whole world and doing all right.”
― Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song

“By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.”
― Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“Who knew better than Raquel that nothing lasts. Hope fades. And love... love hurts.”
― Michelle Sutton, When Love Collides

“Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“Let there be no scales to weigh your un-known treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of ‘homeâ€� was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.”
― Tabitha Vohn, Finding What Is

“Sometimes skin to ground [is] the most comforting place; nowhere to go but up.”
― Tabitha Vohn, Finding What Is

“How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.”
― Justin Young

“If I'm afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?”
― Sydney Paige McCutcheon

“Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.”
― Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2

“The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide II: Ruin

“Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and time necessary to be introspective.”
― Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

“If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.”
― L.A. Rosenberg

“Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.”
― Janette Oke Laurel Oke Logan