Alix

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.” “War springs from unseen and generally insignificant causes.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace

“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence

“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.” -Shunryu Suzuki Roshi”
― Angela Roquet, For the Birds

“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.” -Francois Rabelais”
― Angela Roquet, Pocket Full of Posies