“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”
"At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before."
- Warsan Shire
Hope
"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat."
- Warsan Shire
Self-awareness
"My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude."
- Warsan Shire
Self-awareness
"I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself."
- Warsan Shire
Self-awareness
"Light attracts light."
- Warsan Shire
Inspiration
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity