Pamela

“Selfishness is neither good nor bad—it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“To him, restaurants were the ultimate expression of ungodly waste. For of all the luxuries that your money could buy, a restaurant left you the least to show for it. A fur coat could at least be worn in winter to fend off the cold, and a silver spoon could be melted down and sold to a jeweler. But a porterhouse steak? You chopped it, chewed it, swallowed it, wiped your lips and dropped your napkin on your plate. That was that. And asparagus? My father would sooner have carried a twenty-dollar bill to his grave than spend it on some glamorous weed coated in cheese.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed