Dedan Githaka

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
― Confucius

“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story