"All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you." -Ghost in the Shell, 1995

"Even when I was little, I knew that teenagers sparkled. I knew they knew something children didn’t know, and adults ended up forgetting." -Lorde

"I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next." -Mahatma Gandhi

"We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world." -Gabor Maté

'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.' -Audre Lorde

“Some of the most sensitive people are in jail... because the more hurt you are, the more likely you are to go in the wrong direction. But the more sensitive you are, the more hurt you’re going to be.” -Gabor Maté

The greatest form of activism is to be a living example of the type of people you'd like to see walking this earth. -Ebonee Davis

"The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates

“Wherever the crowd goes, run in the other direction. They’re always wrong." -Charles Bukowski