| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3610317 | I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again. | careers employment failure getting-fired human-nature job-losses learning-from-mistakes life life-lessons losing-hope losing-self loss mistake mistakes self-worth | Gillian Flynn | |
| 49dc599 | "Your voice is the wildest thing you own," Brooke says to me. "And you're giving it away. You can't see it. Your obsession is blinding you." He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. "You're losing yourself." | losing-self voice | Terry Tempest Williams |