21. To find my place

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.
- Anne Frank

You will become whatever you want to become. Even if you don’t know what that is.
Be careful of what you want.

Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
- Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.

Jane Eyre; Charlotte Brontë

Writing is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.
- Graham Greene

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
- Richard Bach

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde

We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

I like brackets.

Stop leaving and you will arrive.
Stop searching and you will see.
Stop running away and you will be found.
- Lao Tzu

Maybe sometimes, you have no choice.
You just have to love the people around you.
Or to be away from them.
To exist in peace.

i want decorative tapes. all patterns. especially a lace one.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.
- Douglas Coupland

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

- Billy, Age 4