If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same; it’s the message you leave behind that counts. Rita Levi-Montalcini quote. Painting by Ambrose McEvoy.

One life is an absurdly small allowance. Freya Stark quote. Painting by Dod Procter.

Parents can only give advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. Painting by Camille Pabst.

Suppose that we had to kill the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig. Aimé  Perret painting.

You don’t find love it finds you. It’s got a little to do with destiny, fate and what’s written in the stars. Adolfo Belimbau painting.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over. Annie Laing painting.

It’s not “What do I want to do”? it’s “What kind of life do I want to have”? Painting by Eduard Forti.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

No need to be anybody but oneself. Virginia Woolf quote. A. C. W. Duncan painting.