Jonathan Harnisch Quotes

What if you had such severe schizophrenia that your life was just one hallucination after another? And what if people kept trying to drag you back out of those hallucinations, to prove that you weren't living in reality and that reality was nothing more than a psych hospital? Would you go?

There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be loved for who I am, not what I can do, or might one day become. Unfortunately it’s not usually like this in every single situation. From time to time, my parents made mistakes during my childhood. Possibly I was the mistake, or unwanted. But I don’t know. I had every material thing that I could have ever wanted, but there was still something missing, as if I felt distanced from my parents, or misunderstood, in the ways that they treated me. At times, I had felt completely loved and accepted by my parents, but for one reason or another, they were unable to care for me, provide for me, in some ways that would have been very important. Sometimes I feel like I am trying to make up for the experiences in life that were absent when I was a child.

I wanted a complicated life.

Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.

I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.