Lauren

“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly become individuals, because all the familiar things are dark and done, all the restrictions on freedom are removed. Many artists work at night - it is particularly conducive to creative work.”
― John Crosby