"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

— Abraham Lincoln

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

— Anaïs Nin

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

— Rumi

"The world will be saved by beauty."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you."

— Paulo Coelho