“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

You deserve to love yourself so much that it radiates from your very being.

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

“When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things start going right they often go on getting better and better.”

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning”

“The sun will rise, and we will try again.”

name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not 

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.”