The realization that each random passerby is the main character of their own story, living a life just as vivid and complex as your own, while you are just an extra in the background. John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away, and there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. Pascal Mercier

In the end, this may be why certain losses are so shocking, not because they defy reality, but because they reveal it. Kathryn Schulz

Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. Dan Millman

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston