Sarah Dessen Quotes

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.