R. Eve

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
― George Saunders

“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus