"I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up; it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself."

Haruki Murakami (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"You cannot use someone else’s fire; you can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe you have it."

Audre Lorde (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"You can never completely know anyone, no matter how well you think you do. There will always be some truth about them you don’t ever get to know."

Susane Colasanti (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands."

Oscar Wilde (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated by other peoples’ opinions."

Paulo Coelho (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways."

Sigmund Freud (via onlinecounsellingcollege)