"It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."

~Malik El Shabazz (aka Malcolm X) Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit

"Work like you don't need the money.// Love like you've never been hurt.// Dance like nobody's watching.// Sing like nobody's listening.// Live like it's Heaven on Earth."

"LIFES BLUNT... ROLL WITH IT"

"u gotta hurt in order to know
fall in order to grow
lose in order to gain
cause most of life’s lessons
--are learned thru pain-->"

"I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway, and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it."

-Anne Lamott

"Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you."

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them."

"No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry."