Cindy

“Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for”
― W.S. Merwin

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears...”
― Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

“I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility