“Stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop running back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.”

The legacies people leave behind in you.

“We are taught to believe that love is sufficient, only to leave an odd bunch of us dependent, and damned.”

“There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn’t it? You’re not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.”

“It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.”