Jean Jacques Rousseau

Only passion can elevate the soul to do great things.

Elizabeth Smart

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Lillian Smith

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Philip Larkin

Until I grew up, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I
realized it was just children I didn't like. Once you started meeting
grown-ups life was much pleasanter. Children are very horrible, aren't
they? Selfish, noisy, cruel, vulgar little brutes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.