— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Connecting with the present
“A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.”
— Anthony Anaxagorou
“You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.”
— John Green
“Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved - but don’t do it again.”
— Unknown
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
— Swedish Proverb
“Be nice to yourself. It is hard to be happy when someone is being mean to you all the time.”
— Christine Arylo
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“She knew she was really sad, when she stopped loving the things she loved.”
— Unknown
“I don’t regret us but I wouldn’t do it again.”
— Unknown
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
— J.K. Rowling
I am sorry when you come over the sky is always overcast.
For I only show you my rain and my storms.
I promise I understand your reasons.
Her lawns are perfectly mowed, children ride on bicycles outside and the sky shines in its constant California Sun.
Why would you have faith in me when I'm not even sure of my own tropics.
But understand her Sun is temporary and she too has thunders. She just understands apearances better than I do.
I love the Sun. I just was not taught how to show mine. Sometimes when no-one is looking rainbows appear and the grass is nourished and soaked in morning dew.
You'll never know! And why should you?
If I had known earlier, I promise I would have moved to California when I was 16!
I would have invested in myself
-rn7 @days-of-gold
“Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”
— Charles Lindbergh
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
— Plato
