Hanna

“Is there," he asked with a bitter smile, "any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?”
Nobody held up a hand.
"As I feared," said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up he would have taken it as a personal insult. No man really in love can forgive another for not sharing his ardour. His jealousy for himself when his beloved prefers another man is hardly a stronger passion than his jealousy for her when she is not preferred to all other women.”
― Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

“Only the insane take themselves seriously.”
― Max Beerbohm

“you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida