“...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.”
Source: DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
“When you lose your mind you may as well forget it.”
“Your imagination is the gateway into your sensual world.”
“Instead of worrying vainly about being liked, loved, or respected, individuals should concern themselves with what others expect of them. Expectations rule the future of relationships.”
Source: The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere
“Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“What is my life worth, my time worth,
my well-being worth? What will I
give it up for, at what price?
Truly, what good is it to gain everything,
whether money and possessions,
knowledge and power,
fame and influence,
likes and followers,
or anything the outside world
has to offer you? Is it not temporal?
Is it worth losing your mind and your well-being?”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“Maybe she didn’t do something big. Maybe she just told someone something.”
Frank looked over at me, more serious now. “Like what?”
I shrugged. “Something they’d been needing to hear,” I said. I thought it over for a moment, then added, “I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish..." She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone