Elena

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time