it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole. ― Rupi Kaur

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone de Beauvoir

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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid. ― Alan Watts

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The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms. ― Lao Tzu

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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. ― Chuck Palahniuk

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ― Rumi

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All writing is a form of prayer.

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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. ― Emma Donoghue

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