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"Know this: You can start over, each morning." — Tyler Joseph

"I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it." — Unknown

"What it is you think you know about how I became this crooked soul, let me make one thing clear for you: your mind can't conjure anything near the hell I had to walk through." — Jessica Katoff

"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long." — Sylvia Plath

"I'm not going to bother you. I'm going to just sit here until you calm down." — Manchester by the Sea

"My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?" — Fernando Pessoa

"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me." — Vincent van Gogh

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne

"She is an old soul. She thinks deep and loves deep. This is why she often gets hurt in life. But this is also why she gets excited at little things and enjoys life to its fullest. Feeling deeply and loving deeply is her blessing and her curse." — Madiha

Jane: "It's okay if you don't want to talk, you know. I don't want to talk either sometimes. I just like to stay silent." — Paris, Texas

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour. Such is my idea of happiness." — Leo Tolstoy

"I can't decide", he said, "whether you are wild wrapped in fragile or fragile wrapped in wild." "Well, that depends on the day", I replied with a smile. — Unknown

"I do think that it is hard for me to share myself with everyone. My introspection and queer thoughts always make me feel no one will understand - except someone I love. When I love someone, I make myself increasingly vulnerable to them - and give them the power to hurt me." — Sylvia Plath

"You are not too much. You have never been too much. You will never be too much. The very idea is preposterous. Because you were born to be you. All of you. Not a tiny acceptable sliver. Not a watered down version with colors dulled and edges softened. No. You were meant to be every last pulsing-bleeding-loving-crying-feeling bit." — Jeanette LeBlanc

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." — Jack Kerouac

"You held on to something that never held on to you, and that was the problem." — T.B. LaBerge

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." — J.K. Rowling

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me." — Jane Austen

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically, it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful." —Franz Kafka

"Doesn't it bother you? That they refuse to see the good in you, that they choose to only focus on your faults and mistakes?" he asks her. I turn my head to the sea and look for the horizon. "Why should it? We're all bad in someone's story. — Unknown

"It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them, I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me." — Stephen Fry

"I wanna heal. I wanna feel like I'm close to something real. I wanna find something I've wanted all along, somewhere I belong." — Linkin Park

"There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone. There are some things I don't understand at all. I can't tell what I think about things or what I'm after. I don't know what my strengths are or what I'm supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary." — Haruki Murakami

April: "I wish I didn't care about anything. But I do care. I care about everything too much." — Palo Alto

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." — J. D. Salinger

"You’re worth a handwritten letter, a random trip at night to the beach, a painting that says more than a thousand words." — Scottie Waves

"You tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful, but I want not made with a fire in my belly, so I could be put out. I was not made with a lightness on my tongue, so I could be easy to swallow. I was made heavy, half blade and half silk, difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow." — rupi kaur

"And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are." — Stephen Chbosky

"But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes." — C.S. Lewis

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting." — L.M. Montgomery

"Is it all right for me to be here?" — Our Little Sister

"I want no name. I want no fame, I want impact. I am a worried person with a stressed-out soul, living a simple life with no capital. I am gathering knowledge in every corner I can with the abilities I have. I'm reading philosophy, politics, history, and fiction. Greek tragedies and the arctic waste. I'm studying psychology, economics, plant-based nutrition and I'm writing essays and manifestos, chasing bigger names with bigger frames, to ask a question or two, and I am learning to lead. I am reading to take the lead. Lead who? Myself. My own life. My own future. I'm not chasing you, or them, or anyone else; I am chasing me." — Charlotte Eriksson

"Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily." — Lemony Snicket

Ethan: "We're a mess, and I love that about us. And I don't want to be perfect. I want to be us." — The One I Love

"Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are." — Iain S. Thomas

"It ends or it doesn’t. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn’t. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for yourself alone. Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn’t. It ends or it doesn’t. We do not perish." — Caitlyn Siehl

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." — James Baldwin

"Sometimes you need to remind yourself that you were the one who carried you through the heartache. You are the one who sits with the cold body on the shower floor and picks it up. You are the one who feeds it, who clothes it, who tucks it into bed, and you should be proud of that. Having the strength to take care of yourself when everyone around you is trying to bleed you dry, that is the strongest thing in the universe." — Unknown

"Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm." — Nikita Gill

"It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready." — Helen Mirren, In the Frame

"One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find, is they are not always with whom we spend our lives." — Beau Taplin

"You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting." — J.M. Berry

"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are." — Mark Haddon

"There are mean and nightmarish parts of you that you continuously have to eat up. You continuously feel like clenching your fists, snuffing your anger out, pushing back your demons, shushing yourself, and dimming the lights that surround you. You are a volcano that is about to erupt but never allowing yourself that release because you know the embers will be throttling, the aftereffect is destructive. And so magma turns to blood and ember to dust. And there you are accompanied by darkness, swallowing it all down, telling yourself that a few deep breaths are the remedy to every bit of pain that’s holding you under. Breathe in. Smell the flowers that your ember has not coated. Breathe out. Blow the ******** out the forest fires that are taking place in your head. Let go of the flames that are setting your skin ablaze, dancing around your feet, ignore the thunder that is constantly cracking your bones, ignore the heavy heart, and ignore the agony to crush. Keep it down. Keep that smile on your face because if you don’t, you will wipe out and for good everything that comes your way and you are not damaging. You are a scope of flowers gently dancing in the breeze, you are the ocean gently kissing the shore, you are the stars brightening up the night sky. Don’t give this ruthless world a chance to turn you from an innocent human being into a dangerous being, don’t let the raging water erode you and turn you into a Colca Canyon. You are no canyon, no empty being, and no cruel sight. You are gentle. You are kind. You are okay. You deserve all the love." — Wally MG

"He found her most beautiful not when she was all fancied up, but when she wasn’t. When she was lying on the carpet, her hair all a mess, laughing about something that had happened years ago. When she wasn’t trying to impress anyone and taken down that wall that she had built for most people. That’s when he couldn’t take his eyes off of her." — Unknown

"You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you." — Hanif Kureishi

"When I say, I love you, it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are." — Joss Whedon

"Writing while being frank and true to yourself is one of the toughest things to do. It’s hard because it makes you confront feelings and thoughts you have been carefully locking away. But you know better than to throw the keys away and there finally comes a moment when you are ready to unlock it all. Once it’s all in words that you can’t ignore, you think you have dealt with the hard stuff but it has only just begun. When you write about something that heals you, about everything that hurts you, about people who change you. you can never do so without pissing someone off because each and everything that affects you is connected to someone else in your life and if that person isn’t a writer, they won’t quite understand the need of penning every emotion down." — Wally MG

"It’s messing people up, this social pressure to “find your passion” and “know what it is you want to do”. It’s perfectly fine to just live your moments fully, and marvel at many small and large passions, many small and large purposes enter and leave your life. For many people, there is no realization, no bliss to follow, no discovery of your life’s purpose. This isn’t sad, it’s just the way things are. Stop trying to find the forest and just enjoy the trees." — Sally Coulter