To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony. – Marcus Aurelius     When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius     It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius     Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight. – Marcus Aurelius     “Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.” ― Marcus Aurelius       It never ceases to amaze…

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust     “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust     “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” ― Marcel Proust     “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust     “Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can…

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” ― Mao Zedong     “To read too many books is harmful.” ― Mao Zedong     “Women hold up half the sky.” ― Mao Zedong     “Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.” ― Mao Zedong     “Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.” ― Mao Zedong     “An…