"september 6. the desire grows stronger in me "to live in my own world continuously.""

• anaïs nin

"one day you think: i want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually, actually. i think i want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and i want to die turns day by day into i want to go home, i want to walk in the woods, i want to see my friend, i want to sit in the sun, i want a cleaner kitchen, i want a better job, i want to live somewhere else. i want to live."

• @starlightacademia via tumblr

"the first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself."

• severance, ling ma

"you too can be carved anew by the details of your devotions."

• long life: essays and other writings, mary oliver

"and if you missed a day, there was always the next,

and if you missed a year, it didn't matter,

the hills weren't going anywhere,

the thyme and rosemary kept coming back,

the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit"

• sunrise, louise glück