Eureka – yu·ray·kaa – a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something.

This feels magical when we read something exactly that we feel or think. At that moment, we feel like we have discovered a lost part of ourselves. These moments can be called eureka moments. These are my eureka moments. Please tell me if one of these gives you your eureka moments.

I think you are having a different sort of heartbreak. Maybe a kind of heartbreak of being in the world when you don’t know how to be. If that makes any sense?

— Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

— Oscar Wilde

How many times did I die without noticing?

— Mahmoud Darwish, In The Presence of Absence

I am forever caught between saying too much and not saying enough.

— Unknown

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

— Robert J. Sawyer

What others believe is not my concern, unless they attempt to force it on me.

— Richard K. Morgan, The Dark Defiles

I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.

— Jennifer Echols, Forget You

Things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranged itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.

— Hanya Yanagihara, A little life

Mother, I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly. Some nights, your daughter tears herself apart yet heals in the morning.

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

But surely for everything you love, you have to pay some price.

— Agatha Christie

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

It’s easy for people to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.

— William Shakespeare

If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.

— Tony Baskin

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them.

— Charles Bukowski

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

— Jorge Luis Borges