"There's always beauty, if you know where to look."

--

Patrick Ness

“By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.”
“I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.235, Macmillan
“Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.”
“If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.”
“I still have the passion to play.”
“One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.”
“I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.”
“Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professionsâ€”the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.”

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