i recommend anais nin. here are a few to start:
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
oh here are two anais nin links:
http://www.anaisnin.com/quote/index.html
http://www.anais-nin.de/
also, here is something henry miller wrote about anais nin. dont you want to be her?
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, venture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.