Maggielou

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope