ARTBLEED

Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

You can make anything by writing.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.- C. S. Lewis

E. E. Cummings: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.” ― Jacques Lacan

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. -Nina Simone

 I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. — E.M. Forster

“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”

Take some books and read; that's an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. —Anton Chekhov