Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.

Unknown

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields.
That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

Kahalil Gibran

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Queen Elizabeth I

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays and Survival Tips

I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo, written in her diary a few days before her death

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.

Warsan Shire

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

“It’s amazing that people believe everything is predestined but they still look both ways when crossing the road.”

— Stephen Hawking

داخل نفسي هو المكان الذي أعيش فيه وحده كل شيء.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone. (And that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up).
— Pearl S. Buck

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

Morticia Addams