Luisa Isabel

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.”

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”

“You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent…You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.”

“How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it’s okay. It’s okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It’s part of being human.”

“Some people are born flight risks. It is no shortcoming of yours that they cannot keep their feet on the ground. It is not your fault that they cannot seem to stand in place. They are not leaving you; they are just leaving.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time. All else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

“to hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice.”

“Human beings are made of water–- we were not designed to hold ourselves together rather run freely like oceans like rivers”

“If it gets awkward, let it be awkward. That awkwardness is something they created. You don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay when you are not feeling okay so that they can feel better about themselves.”

“Children see magic because they look for it.”

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

“It’s okay to be sensitive to something, just don’t let the feeling own you.”

“You cannot use someone else’s fire; you can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe you have it.”