Flori Toader

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior's approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“To think of those Nickel nights where the only sounds were tears and insects, how you could sleep in a room crammed with sixty boys and still understand that you were the only person on earth. Everybody and nobody around at the same time. Here everybody was around and by some miracle you didn't want to wring their neck but give them a hug.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Make a career of humanity. Make it a central part of your life.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott