You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.He was moving from an unreality that was frightening...

Deception’ is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from...

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on,...

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters,...

The strongest people are people who faced the toughest situations in life. People who are defeated by the toughest battles are stronger than those who have won by using the escape route!

…to return to their ‘native soil,’ as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and...

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Well, I like to know where I’m going before I try to get there. It’s a mistake to try to execute a plan before you’ve thought of one, in my experience.

Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect...

A child can escape the shadows.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other – made up – people’s problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…

If I tried to escape or did anything wrong, they would have killed me and harvested my organs.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape?

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal–stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine...

Jess.” He whispers. “That was far from manhandling you sweetheart. I’m just claiming what I want, and make no mistake,” He places tender kisses along my jaw leading down to my neck. “I. Always. Get....

The motive for our actions doesn’t lie ahead of us. It’s something behind us that we’re trying to escape.

The people who couldn’t get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Truth starts with a sense.

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind,...

…you’re either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.

There is no such thing as freedom on earth,” he said. “Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you’ve escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage....

There is no escape for me now, I know. Everything is over. I had my run. I was a murderer, a beautiful one, but I lived in a house of cards all my life and...

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.Unto the world in grossly loving zest,With clinging tendrils,...

How much better it would be if they weren’t so damn understanding–if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself out in the street with two dollars to your name, to catch the...

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

When you stop trying to escape your life, a lot of your desires disappear.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Your eyes, they shine so brightI wanna save that lightI can’t escape this nowUnless you show me how

Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. “You always have to take yourself with...

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see...

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.

Deanna Durbin’s movies are about innocence and sweetness. They’re from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend,...

I thought about all the people who’d had to do this through history. The millions taking flight from disasters, fleeing tyrannical despots, making exodus from pogroms, escaping waring soldiers and pouring out of bombed cities....

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

son,” Mr. P said. “You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.

Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran...

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

People run away from the love game because they know they won’t win the race.

Why can’t these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious...