“You are stronger than you think. You have gotten through every bad day in your life, and you are undefeated." Lori Gottlieb #strength #survival

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius #goingslowly

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise." Victor Hugo #night #day #hope

‘If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself’ Albert Einstein #Understanding

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso #child #artist

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson #books

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about. Jeanette Winterson, The Passion #love

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. Jeanette Winterson #books

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. Jeanette Winterson #life #chance

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. Andrew Solomon #words #strong

dbook read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. Andrei Tarkovsky

“Don't forget to love yourself.” Soren Kierkegaard #love #self

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson #friendship

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson #nature #patience

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson #oldfriends

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson #fear

The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson #seeing