Alanis Morissette, Sorry To Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084

I am out with lanterns looking for myself

— Emily Dickinson

“Behind every strong person lies a broken child who had to learn to stand up and take no shit.”

— lonerwolf

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

— Robin Williams

You know you are doing well when you lose the interest of looking back.

Unknown

A year of ballerina tea and vodka

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles

“Sometimes the happiest ending isn’t the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.”

— Shauna Niequist

“I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

— Kahlil Gibran in his letter to Mary Elizabeth Haskell dated 11 Nov 1911, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal 

“But every time I try to move on, you’re right there.”

— Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl