“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
—James Baldwin
May 2012
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“A poet’s work … to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
—Salman Rushdie
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.”
—David Allen
“You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather.”
—Pema Chodron
“Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been.”
—Angela Carter, Wise Children
“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can’t be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren’t like that. You still ask questions. You’re still looking for the answers.”
—Ryan O’Connell, I Want To Know You
“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won’t make life perfect but she’ll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that’s in you.”
—Gayle G. Roper, Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
—Steve Martin
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
—John Keats, Letters of John Keats
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
—Eckhart von Hochheim
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
—C.S. Lewis
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
—Kahlil Gibran
“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”
—E.E. Cummings
“Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.”
—Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
—Albert Einstein
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
—Albert Schweitzer
“There is great joy in darkness.
Deepen it.” —Hakim Sanai
Deepen it.” —Hakim Sanai
“Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”
—Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”
—Barbara Marciniak
