Mairobi

“Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Russia is a country with unpredictable past.”
― Rodric Braithwaite, Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past

“The existence of sensitive people is an advantage for humankind because it is this group that best expresses humanity’s creative urges and needs. Through their instinctual responses the world is best interpreted. Under normal circumstances, they are artists or artisans, seekers, inventors, shamans, poets, prophets. There would be valid and powerful evolutionary reasons for the survival of genetic material coding for sensitivity. It is not diseases that are being inherited but a trait of intrinsic survival value to human beings. Sensitivity is transmuted into suffering and disorders only when the world is unable to heed the exquisitely tuned physiological and psychic responses of the sensitive individual.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder – The International Bestseller

“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy