"Embrace this right now life while it's dripping, while the flavors are excellently woesome. Take your bites with bravery and boldness, since the learning and the growing are here in these times, these exact right nows. capture these times. Hold and kiss them because it will soon be very different." -jill scott

"No - we don't want too much, we actually aspire to too little. That's the problem with so many people nowadays. We try to mask our longings for transcendence with quick and easy solutions - materialism, addictions, apathy - and we destroy the eternal spirits within us. What we need is not more willpower to control our selfishness, but to fall in love. Not even so much with others, but with beauty and transcendence themselves. That way, it won't be a question of denying ourselves our true desires, but of recognizing them, and refusing to settle for mere substitutes."