Gonzalo

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“It’s strange how all feelings fade, even those you thought would drown you.”
― Dan Ymas, The Nights We Won't Forget

“This love, smothered by all of my inner doubts, by all of my contradictions and fears and egoism, only served to sicken rather than to heal her. Loving her in this way—and I did love her, the first girl I had—wasn’t enough.”
― Dan Ymas, The Nights We Won't Forget