Jessica

“Wayward human nature will rebel against mental sloth. We must act, suffer, or enjoy; or the worst of all torments is ours - such restless agony as old poets figured as befalling a living soul imprisoned in the bark of a tree. We are not born to be cabbages.”
― Mary Shelley

“A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.”
― Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence

“...The white majesty of death had fallen on him and set him apart as one crowned.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Fitness was not his cup of tea. He treated his body like a vehicle - a motorbike that he raced at top speed along the rim of the Grand Canyon.”
― Saul Bellow, Ravelstein