Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Nothing can be worse than expecting anything from anyone, despite being born
as a human... The question is, why should someone help you in the first place?
-Deep Trivedi
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.
-Steven Grayhm