"You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds."
Barbara Bloom
"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
David Levithan
"My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see."
Andre Dubus
"I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go."
Jeffrey McDaniel
"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is. I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"
Epicurus
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
"Live on coffee and flowers.
Try not to worry what the weather will be."
Try not to worry what the weather will be."
Matt Berninger
"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."
Thomas Merton
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In my experience, the people who become writers are the ones who keep writing through the yards of silence and the years of discouragement… Allow yourself to be uncertain, but don’t let your uncertainty turn to despair. It can be wonderful to write when you’re sad and full of the dark bouquet of doubt, but misery leads itself to silence and one must get out of bed every morning and prepare for the great celebration of one’s own imagination, even if it doesn’t happen that day."
Dean Young
“Emptiness here, emptiness there,
but the infinite universe
stands always before your eyes.”— Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind
