Ali

"The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." View Journal Aesthetics

"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it." View Journal Aesthetics

"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart." View Journal Aesthetics

"He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity." View Journal Aesthetics

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." View Journal Aesthetics

"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard." View Journal Aesthetics

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." View Journal Aesthetics

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy." View Journal Aesthetics

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul." View Journal Aesthetics

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." View Journal Aesthetics

"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are." View Journal Aesthetics