Roshni

“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil war on our perplexing physical envelopes and learn to accept them as unalterable facts of our condition; neither so terrible, nor so humiliating.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton