• I am not trapped in my body, I'm trapped in other people's perceptions of my body. (Ollie Schminkey, "Boobs")

• Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home, and I'm still trying to remember that. (Blythe Baird, "Relapse")

• Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow. (Carrie Fisher)

• No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better. (Erin Bow)

• Get out from your house, from your cave, from your car, from the place you feel safe, from the place that you are. Get out and go running, go funning, go wild, get out from your head and get growing, dear child. (Dallas Clayton)

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. (Barbara Kingsolver)

• Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed. (Alice Walker)

• As the lung must breathe in and breath out, so too we must deal with our challenges and then release them. (x)

• The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow. (Shannon L. Alder)

• Numa sala de cinema, você olha para a tela, nunca para o fundo da sala – o projetor está no fundo. O filme de fato não está na tela: é apenas uma projeção de sombra e de luz. Sua mente está por trás da coisa toda: a mente é o projetor. Mas você fica sempre olhando para o outro, porque o outro é a tela. A interferência da mente é o problema, porque a mente só é capaz de criar sonhos… Com a ajuda do seu entusiasmo, o sonho começa a parecer realidade. Quando o entusiasmo é demasiado, então você está intoxicado, não está na posse dos seus sentidos. Nessa condição, o que quer que você enxergue será apenas uma projeção sua. E existem tantos mundos quanto mentes, porque cada mente vive no seu próprio mundo. (Osho)

• During dormancy, (the growth stops and) the plant remains in a state of rest until good growing condition returns. (x)

• Experiência é o que nos passa, o que nos acontece, o que nos toca. Não o que se passa, o que acontece, não o que toca. A cada dia se passam muitas coisas, porém, ao mesmo tempo, quase nada nos acontece. (Jorge Larrosa Bondía)

• Subsistir é inserir o sub- na existência, fazendo desta uma existência-limite, ou seja, descer – para o mundo, 'devolver terra à terra, para re-infiltrar diversidade no subsolo, para fazê-la emergir, para inventar outros modos de vida, para começar de novo'. (Alexandre Nodari)

• Never let your schooling interfere with your education. (Mark Twain)

• cry often if you need to. there is nothing to be gained by attempting to be well in a cruel world. (...) elder shurli reminds me "tears are to your soul what rain is to the roots of cedar trees." (x)

• You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful. (Hank Green, "A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor")

• Sometimes, maybe once in a lifetime, the tectonic plates—on which you had built your entire life—shift, and you realize that all your schema, your mental structures, were totally untenable. Sometimes we have to learn the same lesson over and over: life breaks us down, restructures or humiliates or shames us. And we need to relearn, recenter and rebuild. Maybe, life the argonauts, you realize nothing remains of the original material. Or perhaps your foundations are still good. Maybe there are things you reuse. I take great comfort in knowing that whatever trials life throws at me, I will probably have the fortitude and resources to weather it. (Rachel Ang)

• This is what courage is. It’s not just living through the nightmare, it’s doing something with it afterward. It’s being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It’s trying to organize to change things. (Leslie Feinberg, "Stone Butch Blues")

• God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: because he wants humanity to share in the act of creation. (Julian K. Jarboe)