Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.

You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.

Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

Worry notif you are in darknessand the void sucks you in further.This is not the place we go to die.It’s where we are bornand our stories begin.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

They took my booksbecause my message was love.They took my penbecause my words were love.Then they took my voicebecause my song was love.Soon they’ll take myselfso nothing remains.But they don’t know that when I'm gonemy love will stay.

I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this?