Celeste

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Then the violet coffin moved again and went in feet first. And behold! The feet burst miraculously into streaming ribbons of garnet coloured lovely flame, smokeless and eager, like pentecostal tongues, and as the whole coffin passed in it sprang into flame all over; and my mother became that beautiful fire.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
― Samuel Johnson