Marwa

“To be bold is to humble yourself. To be bold is to embrace your intuition and what speaks to you on a deep level - even if what it tells you changes as you grow. It’s to tune out the noise and reinvent yourself in the face of pressure to remain the same or become something that is not authentic to you. To be bold is to be imperfect. To be bold is to surrender to the ebb and flow of life - both inside and out. To be bold is to embrace being imperfect and incomplete.”
― Case Kenny, That's Bold of You: How To Thrive as Your Most Vibrant, Weird, and Real Self

“Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations. Improve your dancing, practice a lot, and set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist’s mission: to go beyond one’s limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

“But if you think there’s any chance that I could make you happy, I wish you would let me try. Because it’s the only thing I really want to do with my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“And what did being women have to do with it? She was better than any male player in America. She remembered the Life interviewer and the questions about her being a woman in a man's world. To hell with her; it wouldn't be a man's world when she finished with it.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit