there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.