Karen Abboud

“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet