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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

“If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly with trees.”

“There’s even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.”

I don’t know where my journey will take me, but I know that my body is 60% water, and like all water everywhere, it is on an inexorable journey back to the sea.

Everything human
is leaving
her face
Soon she will disappear
into the calm
vegetable
morass

Sta y!

My Wild Love!

A tear down
one cheek
was
all I carried
on my journey
to
you.

Psychological fact: Emotional pain lasts just 12 seconds, anything longer is self inflicted

“You are going to change your mind a thousand times. That is a good thing. Only imbeciles never change their minds.”

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music…. And people flock around the poet and say: ‘Sing again soon’ - that is, ‘May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.”

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I’d like to thank people who read and think and people who have made me think and read and those who think while reading and read while thinking, but you shouldn’t read while driving because that’s a safety issue.

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.