- "and although i can’t stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, i can be kinder to every living creature in my life."
- remember: hate is always foolish and love is always wise.
- "art and love are the same thing: it's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."
- "and then i have nature and art and poetry and if that is not enough, what is enough?" x
- "not that I want to be a god or a hero. just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone." x
- "i am full of love for every one. and everything is soft and vague and very sad. it is sad, it is sad. but everything has meaning." x
- "you don't meet the people you love, you recognize them." x
- "still, there is this terrible desire to be loved. still, there is this horror at being left behind."
- "run to the rescue with love and peace will follow." x
- "I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."
- "When everything seems hopeless just take one day at a time. And if one day becomes too much, just take one hour at a time. And if one hour becomes too much, then just take one minute at a time".
- "there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." x
- "the cosmos is within us; we are made of starstuff, we are a way for the universe to know itself."
- "I well knew that one could break one’s arms and legs before, and that then afterwards that could get better but I didn’t know that one could break one’s brain and that afterwards that got better too." x
- "a religião não pode monopolizar as qualidades humanas". (drauzio varella)
- "She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. 'Misanthrope' is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men. And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: 'misogynist.' But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word." x
- "i am still so naïve; i know pretty much what i like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who i am. a passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?" (sylvia plath)
- nós pregamos uma peça em nós mesmos quando vemos o outro como separado.
- não se pode precisar o momento em que uma amizade se forma. como ao encher gota a gota uma vasilha, há, no final, uma gota que a faz transbordar, assim, também, em uma série de gentilezas, há uma que, por fim, faz o coração transbordar.
- blessed are the peacemakers. (m 5:9)
- for my part i know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. x
- mortui vivos docent.
- se tens um coração de ferro, bom proveito. o meu, fizeram-no de carne, e sangra todo dia. x
- “O ‘Plano de Deus’ é geralmente uma fachada para os planos dos homens, e uma forma de se encobrir a ignorância, a desigualdade e o mal.” / “The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a person trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin’.” (Mary Daly)
- nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that i can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.
- your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
- find what you’d die for, and live for it.
- love is a form of energy, and it swirls all around us.
- confidence is not 'they will like me', confidence is 'i will be fine if they don't'.
- i said to the sun, "tell me about the big bang". the sun said, "it hurts to become."
- remember when you wanted what you currently have.
- some friendships are so strong, they can even transcend lifetimes.
- "my own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. and why? what's this passion for?" x
- would it be too childish of me to say: i want? but i do want: theater, light, color, paintings, wine and wonder.
- i am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. i am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. anything i cannot transform into something marvelous, i let go. reality doesn’t impress me. i only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, i escape, one way or another. no more walls.
- if your heart is hurting, stop asking it why it hurts. it doesn’t matter why it hurts. what matters is that you stray away from things and people who hurt your heart. there doesn’t always need to be a just reason for cutting things or people out of your life. your happiness is a good enough reason.
jan 12 2018 ∞
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