Sogni Quotes & Sayings

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me. — Kathryn Harrison

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? Do you live an inauthentic life because you can't bear the thought that they might disapprove of you? Do you try to figure out how they would like you to be, and then try to become that, like a chameleon? In fact, you never really get their love. You turn into someone you aren't, and then when they say "I love you," you can't believe it, because they're loving a facade. They're loving someone who doesn't even exist, the person you're pretending to be. It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it, you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have. — Byron Katie

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. — William Blake

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful. — Chuck Palahniuk

Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears. — Edward T. Welch

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights. — Gloria Allred