“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.”
"Love is friendship on fire."
- Susan Sontag
Love
"It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin."
- Susan Sontag
Love
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag
Awareness
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."
- Susan Sontag
Awareness
"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag
Awareness
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage