Saphira Howell > Saphira's Quotes

“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
― Nelson Mandela

“it is your blood
in my veins
tell me how i'm
supposed to forget”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“If light is a place, then darkness is the way.”
― Michelle Phan, Helios:Femina

“Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.”
― Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us

“That was one thing I could be sure of, that my mother loved me. Fuck anyone who tried to come between us.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

“A thought transfixed me. For the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers: the truth that love is the ultimate, and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: the salvation of man is through love and in love.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning