What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms. — Kobayashi Issa
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms. — Kobayashi Issa
The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
— William Gibson
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
— William Shakespeare
But luxury has never appealed to me. I like the simple things; books, being alone or with somebody who understands.
— Daphne du Maurier
Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
— W.S. Merwin
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
— Wyndham Lewis
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel, and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
— Madeleine L’Engle
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
— Arundhati Roy
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
— Voltaire
