“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”

“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?”

“In fact, when you're trying to change, it is sometimes preferable not to rely so much on your experience. In today's world of change, that experience is almost a negative. Why? Because experience can tie you to the past. Experience ties you to old ways of doing things and old ways of thinking that for today may no longer be nearly as effective. For more effective change, you need flexibility--a willingness to listen more to others than to yourself and to try new things rather than repeat what you've always done.”

“Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.”

“Take a good look at yourself and know you've got yourself a ways to go. But difficult is not impossible. You can take back all the lost control.Take a good look at yourself and see that you'll emerge eventually-As long as your heart's not too far gone from THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOURSELF.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”