“The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — I woke up before 6 am only once, and wrote …
comfortable pain
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary — why is emotional …
Notre Dame
“With each passing [and passage], there is a further wearing away of the layers or coverings that obscure our essential selves. And so, as we say “goodbye” again and again, we feel thinner, narrower, more …
cherry blossoms
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems — they perch plush and plum on the tree branches that used to stare naked to the sky dipped in …
how do you define yourself?
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters — how does one define oneself? by what occupies their hours during the day? …
i lost my gloves
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life — it was …
eat- a path to insecurities
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” ― Simone de Beauvoir — eat eat “your ribs are showing you’re nose protrudes giantly from your face” eat eat “you …
an abundance of books
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons — sometimes i am saddened by the sight …
I forgot…myself
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche — i forgot..i forgot that i wanted to be an artist when …