wanting to change a personwho doesn't want to change himselfis like cosmetic surgeryon cancer patients

Your freedom begins where you stop doing what the others expect from you.

I sketch my lifeas my own, my entiretyas the only true lovethe only true magic

Books are gifts. They nourish your mind, spirit, and heart.

Hope believes that everything will turn out right in the end, but always with a touch of fear.Hope isn't knowledge. It isn't a certainty.Hope proves nothing – one must do.One must act to transform hope into certainty, which conquers the fear within it.

My mother always spoke of a “flowering period” of each and every human being in which his or her true beauty comes to light – from the inside and the outside.I didn't have it in the past.I look at old photographs and think: “Darling, that hasn't been you. That has been you on the way to your own self, but still lightyears away.”Meanwhile, I am more myself than I could have been in the past.

Be someone you'd like to know yourself.

When I think back to the first time we met, it feels like a dream," you said, only a few days later.And thus you voiced what came true only a few months later.It had been a dream.[...]"Even then, you have sealed our preterite," I said."Why do you say something like this," you asked me."Because we never had the chance to share the present.