ANCORA IMPARO

“I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”

—J. C. Penny

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”

—Ram Dass

“I dont believe in marriage. No, I really dont. Let me be clear about that. I think at worst its a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, its a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable theyre about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don’t think its conservative or delusional. I think its radical and courageous and very romantic.”

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Frida

I think its radical and courageous and very romantic.

“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”

—Vladimir Nabokov

“I put my hand on him. Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches. My fingers against his shoulder. The outsides of our thighs touching as we squeezed together on the bus. I couldn’t explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?”

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly