514 quotes found
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. ...”
“Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.”
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”
“Don't let your habits become handcuffs”
“No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That o...”
“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought n...”
“We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.”
“He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wing...”
“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you ...”
“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”
“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. Its always changing and is always...”
“You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don't recognizem...”
“13NOTESShe hesitated. For two years she had kept as far away from Mikael Blomkvist as she could. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real ...”
“When youre growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that theres something different about you. On one level, you know theres something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing...”
“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggle...”
“The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.”
“I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface ...”
“But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.”
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.”
“We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.”
