Raisa

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“On my desk are piles of homework and professors’ notes requesting to discuss my substandard performance. I fear confronting the world outside my room, because it is so intent on reminding me how unprepared and unintelligent I am.”
― Noé Álvarez, Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

“I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old”
― Bayard Taylor, The Poems of Bayard Taylor