Life and living Quote by Riikka Pulkkinen

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Like thousands of others, we survived the storm and the many dark days that followed because of the kindness of strangers who brought food,…

— Vivek Murthy

“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them…

— O. Henry

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon…

— Cormac McCarthy

“...their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we’d had was winter, all we’d had was…

— Ali Smith

“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory,…

— Charles Bukowski

“All it took was a chance meeting with a stranger, some unexpected conversation. A few moments of kindness from someone who had no inkling…

— Lara Adrian

“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were frightfully miserable…

— Dezső Kosztolányi

“Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.”

— Gerald Durrell