Your teacher can open the door but you must enter by yourself.

Chinese Proverb

What I would like to give my daughter is the habit of living with freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Erica Jong

Solitude matters. And for some people it is the air that they breathe.

Susan Cain

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.

Stephen Chbosky

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax.

Mark Black