Jessica

“Because you think of yourself as no more than a single thread in the robe, whose duty it is to conform to the mass of people – just as a single white thread seemingly has no wish to clash with the remainder of the garment. [18] But I aspire to be the purple stripe, that is, the garment’s brilliant hem. However small a part it may be, it can still manage to make the garment as a whole attractive. Don’t tell me, then, ‘Be like the rest,’ because in that case I cannot be the purple stripe”
― Epictetus, Discources and Selected Writings

“I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What we find difficult about mathematics is the formal, symbolic presentation of the subject by pedagogues with a taste for dogma, sadism and incomprehensible squiggles.”
― J.E. Gordon

“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations