Liora

“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935

“I pledge allegiance to a country without borders, without politicians”
― Switchfoot, Switchfoot: Nothing Is Sound

“The real tragedy is, of course, by always looking outward, by focusing so intently on the other person's experience, we lose touch with our own. It's as if we live our entire life pretending to be ourselves, as imposters impersonating ourselves, rather than feeling this is really me, this is who I am.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.”
― Christopher Darlington Morley