Jonathan

“Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The understanding of oneself is not a result, a culmination; it is seeing oneself from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship—one’s relationship to property, to things, to people and to ideas.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You'd think the dreamers would find the dreamers, and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true.
See, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun.
And the realists?
Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.”
― Modern Family