Lysianthus

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin