The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
Wonder is the first of all the passions.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
De omnibus dubitandum
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.
I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.