Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

Strength is not in the body, it's in the mind. It doesn't lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.

—Leah Raeder in Cam Girl

There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

If I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

—Jennifer Castle in The Beginning of After

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

—Madeleine L'Engle

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

—Steve Backley in The Champion in all of Us 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people, because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

—Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism