Joy Badaraco

“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
― John Ruskin, Stones of Venice [introductions]

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
― John Ruskin

“I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew