Sofia Wisdom

“At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.”
― Jan Neruda, Prague Tales

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
― Colin Powell

“The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost”
― J.L. Paul, Vicious Circles