Maria

“I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy