Breaking out of toxic cycles is difficult, because when things get boring, you want to start doing things your old self would've went and did. And you gotta stop and remind yourself that that's not you anymore, and you've made too much progress to go back to those kinda things.

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds — but I think of you always in those intervals.”

― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

Sometimes people with the worst past end up creating the best future.

True freedom is the ability to say no.

Starve the ego Feed the soul.

"We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive."

George Orwell

There are moments in life where loneliness can reveal your inner strength.

shut yourself away, be alone, read and reread, feel wise

There is no self-development without self-awareness. You can read as many books as you desire, but without reading one's self, you won't be able to learn a thing.

Banksy

I walked away from the person I love the most, so I can walk away from anyone.

poetry in red

The world is changed by your example not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

The wise man dies no better or more wisely than the fool. In what way, then, is the wise man wise?

- Joseph Heller