Morgan

“Foot soaking in a homeless shelter—the biblical connotations were obvious. But for Jim, what counted most were the practical lessons, the way this simple therapy reversed the usual order—placing the doctor at the feet of the people he was trying to serve.”
― Tracy Kidder, Rough Sleepers

“Do you know, Antonia, since I’ve been away, I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister—anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me.”
― Willa Cather, My Antonia: The Original 1918 Edition

“There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina