I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.

why Human should not look at the past?

And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt.

Great tests precede great blessings.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

I'm just looking to get through the day.

When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.