John

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away...”
― Emily Dickinson

“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
― Boethius Boethius

“Human perversity, then, makes divisions of that which by nature is one and simple, and in attempting to obtain part of something which has no parts, succeeds in getting neither the part- which is nothing- nor the whole, which they are not interested in.”
― Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook