“It is a valuable thing to learn the difference between who is in your corner and who is in your way.”

Your softness never goes to waste.

I’m not sure if you know this but your peace is not up for debate.

The truth is, I have always felt a little off-balance. Maybe each part of me exists in a  separate world.

I am enough. I am more than enough. I am plenty. Through and through. As I am.

The more I grow the more tender I become.

I am a safe space for myself.

There is a certain peace in privacy.

There is power in my peace and it is loud without sound.

If you ever forget your worth just ask me. I’ll remind you.

I gave my sadness a full name so that I stop thinking of her as an intruder and start acknowledging that I do have to learn how to live with her.

I will tell you one thing, though: I grew like hell from it.

Nothing comes easy for me but that makes me love it more.

The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.

I can finally cry and let it be relief. My tears can be my medicine and not my poison.

I take great comfort in knowing that there are even better versions of myself I haven’t hugged yet.

Can we be easy on ourselves for once?

That individual who reads useful books is no longer on the same plane of thinking as those who neglected them.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

Here to make a difference in a world.