“I have raised you in high regard that every other human being in the world is now destined to live in your shadow.”

New pain is an old pain wrapped in a new story.

Have the courage to laugh in the places you have cried.

When you embrace freedom, you also embrace loneliness.

A blank canvas is still better than a ruined painting.

Learn to love the sound of your feet walking away from people not meant for you.

Expectations kills more people than the best gun in the world.

I am not a person you will find twice.

Quiet people are actually talkative around the mirror.

We are not the roles we play.

Leave the dreamers alone! You will never catch them.

Just because someone loves you in the past doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever.

Between acceptance and letting go, lies life.

Distance yourself from people who remind you of all that you did not receive in your life.

Remove the one that removes you from your life.

I no longer mourn the past. But I, too, once destroyed something I loved and then missed it.

True victory is beyond the fog of appearance.

Don’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Do not romanticize the poor. We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.