Less is more. If you have it inside, you don’t need to show too much. People pick up on things.
– Sigourney Weaver –
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
– David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
Ph : Noell S. Oszvald
It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
– Erich Maria Remarque –
Ph : Formento Formento
Francesca Woodman . . Rome. .
I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of us
just like all of us;
sometimes I want to hug all
Mankind on earth
and say,
god damn all this that they’ve brought down upon us,
we are brave and good
even though we are selfish
and kill each other and
kill ourselves,
we are the people
born to kill and die and weep in dark rooms
and love in dark rooms,
and wait, and
wait and wait and wait.
we are the people.
we are nothing
more.
– Charles Bukowski – What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
– Charles Bukowski –
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.
– Theodore Dreiser –
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul’ll be ‘morrow?
– David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered …
that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
– Anne Lamott – Plan B
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