Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I used to be chaotic and unkempt.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.