Moment

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
(Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Libraries

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

Fairy tales

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
— G.K. Chesterton

Listen

"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination...we learned to talk and we learned to listen."
-Stephen Hawking

Surfaces

“Give me truths: for I am weary of the surfaces.” (“Blight,” in The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magic

"most people are together just so they aren't alone. but some people want magic. i think you are one of those people." -jean-paul scarpitta from broken english

Art

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." (Picasso)