Maia Basaria

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
― Plato, The Laws of Plato