The heavier the weight you can lift is a testament to your physical strength, just as the more people you can love being a testament to having a strong heart. You grow in strength when you start to lift heavier, as you grow in heart the more you love.

If you want to help people, don't get into politics, get into helping people.

Overthinking about things or situations that you are powerless in is just another form of self-harm. If you want to truly bring about change, make better choices so that others might follow.

When you begin to make better choices for yourself, it causes disruption to those around you. You have turned your light on and are shining bright. It will always be those closest to you that are blinded the most by it.

An equal society is like drafts and an unequal society is like chess. No matter how equal or unequal we make ourselves, if we don’t change the aim of the game, if we don’t change the board, then the outcome remains the same.

If you read a book as a child and then read it again as an adult, and you fail to take away anything new from the book, then you haven’t experienced much.

Had I not gone to university and not studied politics, I probably would have voted for brexit, too. If you don’t understand a sum, then anyone can give you the answer. And usually, it’s the answer you most want to hear.

Skin colour unites some, nationality unites others, but I find myself sharing more in common with those who possess the ability to love beyond themselves. Virtues mean so much more.

A grey and lugubrious winter day outside. Disconsolation, despondence and grievance within. Yet the birds still sing, the time still ticks and the heart still beats. A requisite of life, to experience certain things, whether we like it or not.

In knowledge we find wisdom, in love we find strength.