Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. – Sir Thomas Browne
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. – E. M. Cioran
[I]f any one had asked what gifts she desired most, she would have answered with a look more pathetic than any shivering child had given her: “I want the sound of a loving voice; the touch of a friendly hand.” – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, No, youre going to stay with it. Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. – Rebecca Lobo
