Sentences That Have Shaped Me
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
I think unaffected as opposed to untouched is a better definition of youth. There is a persistent resilience, intentional or not, of a youthful spirit.
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realise we only have one.
- Attributed to Confucius