Nicole Alliegro

“If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?”
― Rabbi Hillel

“You know, Ellsworth,' Keating said, leaning forward, happy in an uneasy kind of way, 'I'd rather talk to you than do anything else, anything at all. I had so many places to go tonight--and I'm so much happier sitting here with you. Sometimes I wonder how I'd ever go on without you.'
'That,' said Toohey, 'is as it should be. Or else what are friends for?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire