Virginia Woolf

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

All mankind love a lover.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Language is the archives of history.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?