Avi

“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.”
― Osho Rajneesh

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories