Achieving me is like turning your black money into white :')

— Pratyush Singh

All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil.

— Ayn Rand

Always – but especially when suffering - surround yourself with those who inspire you to lose yourself more honestly, to love others more thoroughly, to live life more fully, and to trust God more wholly. Huddle with those who care for you and those who are exemplary in their encouragement, patience and understanding of others. Hang out with those who strive to put God and faith at their center. Pray for peers, friends and mentors who will not only encourage you to be your best independent, strong, and vulnerable self all at the same time – but also sincerely humble. Pray that their angel dust will transcend you when even the smallest flecks of their contagious warmth and permeating beauty fall upon you. Then ever pray that you may have the opportunity to likewise ease and nurture others in such authentic ways; thus honing such a charitable, other-oriented nature of your own, – a miraculous healing balm – a buffer of pain if there ever was one. Know this is the most powerful antidote for fear and sorrow; the most effective – and addictive – cure-all known in all creation; an elixir for that otherwise, elusive kind of happiness – the kind that weathers, endures and remains in all seasons and conditions.

— Connie Kerbs

A man that knows your worth doesn't need to be told how to treat you. That's a given! You won't have to question his feelings, his motives, nor his intentions. How will I know? You ask. See, he will freely show you how he feels and prove it consistently. If you're settling for anything less than what you deserve. Then, maybe you don't even know your worth.

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

A man with integrity, with vision, with a sense of purpose and place in the world as exactly himself. That's the kind of man I'll settle for.

— Nikki Rowe

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were” and I will say”watch me” for I never did this to fit minor stand output to live.

— Charlotte Eriksson

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

— Criss Jami

A wise man need only the guidance of his own heart.

— Tyler J. Hebert

By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much, of going too be far, along with a fierce yearning for emancipation and a firm resolve never again to compromise her freedom.

— Guy de Maupassant