Never allow a person to tell you no, who doesn’t have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces. ― Frank Ocean

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Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you ― Frank Ocean

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – e. e. cummings

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No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home. — Laura Marney

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You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage. — Brené Brown

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The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me. -- Kanye West

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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. ― Pablo Neruda

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