Amos

“He took up his usual position in the reading room in a chair next to the window and read on, utterly focused on his book. He reminded me of a butterfly drinking the last drop of nectar from a flower. A win-win for both the flower and the butterfly. The butterfly gets nutrition, the flower gets help pollinating. A mutually beneficial relationship, which harms no one. One of the wonderful things about the act of reading”
― Haruki Murakami

“Who himself is not the cause of his own unrest? Reflect how no one is hampered by any other; and that all is as thinking makes it so.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If I've thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remember what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work”
― Gustave Flaubert