Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

I Shall Return!

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?