Niki

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
― Mary Shelley

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”
― Hilaire Belloc