Alexandria

“Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.19 The more distracted we are, the less we can exhibit attunement and caring.”
― Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over, that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Jonathan Harker's Journal, Bram Stoker, Dracula