Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Banana YoshimotoOnce you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
Banana YoshimotoEven when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
Banana YoshimotoOf course, itโs true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when youโre feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they donโt change. They existed, and thatโs all there is to it.
Banana Yoshimoto