Bellanotte

“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women