Helen Yu

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others.”
― Ralph Ellison

“The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown