“Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.”
“Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you re already home.”
“It was almost painful to be different.”
“I m going to stay a little uptight and anxious.”
“I don t like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self spill out of me and i sift through all the disowned parts of who i am... it s an uncomfortably enlightening and eye-opening experience. It feels a bit like emotional bloodletting. I guess every now and then, i need that release valve to open all the way...”
“Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.”
“I am obviously not a patient person.”
“....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.”
“As it almost always was when I d been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”
“Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
“The bravest souls I know are those who are willing to risk having the entire world turns its back on them, and all they’ve ever wanted to do – and they would lay down their lives to do it, because there is no other way to defeat truth– is simply, to tell the world with their whole heart their story.”
“Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.”
“Your spirit needs self-love like the body needs oxygen.”
“Intuition is our knight in white, shining armor, there to help us claim our kingdom in the bold time of life.”
“I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don t need anybody else to do it for me.”
“Don t underestimate the power of being underestimated.”
“For the first time, I´m not just nervous about what´s to come; I´m scared.”