A selection of quotes

"Before I am your daughter,
your sister,
your aunt, niece, or cousin,
I am my own person,
and I will not set fire to myself
to keep you warm."

- unknown

"I have discovered that life doesn’t actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself."

- i. vanzant

"Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others."

- cogyam trungpa

"Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded."

- anita roddick

"Everything in my life is about to change. I am on the edge of it all, I can see it from here and I’m ready. I’m ready to make a better effort at being the person I want to be."

- unknown

"I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all."

- jack kerouac

"Things happen in the world because of the efforts of dedicated and courageous people
whose names no one has heard, and who disappear from history."

- noam chomsky

"When you stop
fretting over
your own scars,
and start
kissing
the scars
of another.

That’s
how you
know."

- the vagabond king

"You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in this world."

- s.e hinton

"Believe that you can run further or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough and so on to accomplish everything you want to do."

- john bingham

"To be alive at all is to have scars."

- john steinbeck

"I tell my piano the things I used to tell you."

- frederic chopin

"It is so hard to leave - until you leave. Then it's the easiest goddamn thing in the world."

- john green

"Long ago, I was wounded. I lived
to revenge myself
against my father, not
for what he was—
for what I was: from the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved."

- louise gluck