I read this in The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) and it felt like the world shifted. I knew I felt this but had never found the words to describe it so poignantly.
‘I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.’
Allan M. Melchowistz
Whew. I have several, but here are my best two:
“You will find that if you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.” Uncle Iroh.
“And that’s the problem with people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner.
Kare Ngugi
Wow. I can see why.