“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into actions.” – Germaine De Stael
Month: November 2025
“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
“We don’t get to choose our own hearts. we can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.” – Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.” – Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” – John Irving
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.” – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.” – Yann Martel, Life of Pi
