"Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel"
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein"
"Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"