Gabriel Corral

“What is born will die What has been gathered will be dispersed What has been accumulated will be exhausted What has been built up will collapse And what has been high will be brought low. The only thing we really have is nowness, now.”
― Susan Anderson, The Journey from Abandonment to Healing, Revised and Updated: Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love

“It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the bustling world regard the real actors in life's stirring scenes; so genuine, in fact, that the former are usually fain to make it palatable to their self-love, by assuming that these active and forcible qualities are incompatible with others, which they choose to deem higher and more important. Thus,”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

“loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice