“If I could go back, I'd coach myself. I'd be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I'd be the woman who says, your mind, your imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

“Just knowing you exist means everything.” -Unknown


" Beauty has no standards, it changes from person to person." -Unknown


“He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?"
She stares at him. "Me?"
"Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.”
― Jennifer E. Smith

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

I love this !

may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance~Neruda

You can't be what you can't see". - Marian Wright Edelman

One of my new favourites.

Fantastic and true.

Thank you .

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira Knightley

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart