“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.” ― Jim Morrison
"Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it’s an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself." — Joan Miró
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.” - James Oppenheim
"Paradise is a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book in the light of an eternal candle!" - Vladimir Nabokov "Speak, Memory" (entitled "Other Shores" in Russian)
"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. " - Miguel de Cervantes [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96999.Courage]