𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 ..

“ a good life is one that feels lovely from the inside, one in which i recognize myself, have enough time to be kind, and do not spend my days longing to be somewhere else. ”

“ i have never wanted every door to open. i think there is a particular happiness in choosing a small corner of this enormous world and learning how to belong to it completely. ”

“ i want to make peace with being a temporary creature in a temporary world. impermanence is not an argument against attachment ; perhaps it is the very reason to love anything at all. ”

“ i have spent too much time waiting for life to become something, when it has been quietly being itself all along. there is nowhere in particular i am meant to arrive. i am only meant to be here long enough to notice that i was here. ”

“ there is a peculiar tenderness in knowing that nothing can be kept exactly as it is. this is why i want to look closely, to linger, to remember. not because i can persuade anything to stay, but because it was here once, and i was fortunate enough to meet it. ”

“ i do not want a life so full that nothing has room to breathe. i want there to be pauses without explanations, thoughts that never become anything useful. emptiness is not always something waiting to be filled. ”

“ the older i become, the less interested i am in becoming tougher. i would rather become more attentive, more easily moved, more willing to care about things that the world considers too little to matter. there are enough ways to become indifferent ; i don't think i need to practice another. ”

“ there are parts of ourselves that should never be made sensible. the part that believes a coincidence might mean something, that becomes attached too easily, that invents stories where there are none. i simply don't think reality suffers when imagination is allowed to sit beside it. ”

“ slowness is about refusing to abandon the present simply because the future keeps calling for attention. tomorrow will have me soon enough ; i would like to belong to today while it is still here. ”

“ i don't think everything beautiful needs to become permanent. some things may be precious precisely because they passed through my life only once. i can miss something without wishing it had lasted forever ; sometimes having been there at all is enough. ”

“ i want to remain someone who can be delighted without irony, sentimental without apology, and earnest even when earnestness is unfashionable. i want to have the courage to refuse to make everything i love into a joke. ”

“ i often wonder how much of a person is made from things they no longer remember. we are carrying thousands of forgotten moments within us - old fears, passing remarks, vanished versions of ourselves - all quietly altering the way we move through the world. ”

“ i don't want to measure my days by what was finished. the most important thing that happened was that i noticed i was happy before the feeling had already become a memory. ”

“ there is something comforting about the world remaining larger than what i know about it. i would rather live among a few unanswered questions than explain so much that nothing is allowed to feel mysterious anymore. ”

“ contentment is often mistaken for having no more wishes. to me, it feels more like being able to wish for tomorrow without asking today to be different first. ”

“ becoming myself has been less a matter of discovering something new and more a matter of returning - slowly putting down all the things i thought i ought to be, until what remains feels familiar. ”