everythinlovely’s most recent Quotables

It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

We are each on our own journey. Each of us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges, and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.

We don't say when because there's something about the possibility of more. More tequila, more love, more anything. More is better.

After all, computers crash, people die and relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breathe and reboot.

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it, but don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually, you'll make up for it.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?...What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that...The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.... Live!

I love stories. I believe that humans are hardwired for story. [...] I know that I am enormously privileged that the job I do to earn a living gives me emotional and intellectual satisfaction. A writer can lift the language above the ordinary, can corral emotions, create the illuminating shaft of light that a particular phrase can send into a dark corner of you mind. Good writing resonates at the frequency of the human spirit.

There may be trouble ahead,
But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance,
Let's face the music and dance.

I always missed you, even when I was with you. Even when I knew you were coming back and when you were breathing and alive and smiling and perfect. I missed you because I always knew you would always leave, even if leaving meant going into another room.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Live with intention walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.