Ifeoma

“You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world that holds offices, and all society... In short, you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentiment falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself... To work in silence and with all one's heart, that is the writer's lot; he is the only artist who must be a solitary, and yet needs the widest outlook upon the world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

“They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Before belonging to the world, you should belong to yourself, as only those who are not happy with their own existence search for it outside.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart