Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing on earth is given without labour, even love, the most beautiful and natural of feelings. <...> But the more difficult the labour and hardship, the higher the reward.
Count Leo Tolstoi to Valeria Arseneva, his fiance. November 2, 1856
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
I think that everything in life is art. What you do, how you dress. How do you love someone and how do you say. Your smile and your personality. And all your dreams. How do you drink tea, how to decorate your home or how to have fun. Your shopping list. The food you cook. What your handwriting looks like. How are you feeling. Life is an art.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view.