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Even if we don’t want to admit it, the ability to overcome most obstacles is within our hands.

We can’t blame family, society, or history if our work is meaningless, dull, or stressful. Admittedly, there are not too many options when we realize that our job is useless, or actually harmful. Perhaps the only choice is to quit as quickly as possible, even at the cost of severe financial hardship.

In terms of the bottom line of one’s life, it is always a better deal to do something one feels good about than something that may make us materially comfortable but emotionally miserable. Such decisions are notoriously difficult, and require great honesty with oneself.

– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi –

There’s something simmering inside of me. Something I’ve never dared to tap into, something I’m afraid to acknowledge. There’s a part of me clawing to break free from the cage I’ve trapped it in, banging on the doors of my heart, begging to be free. Begging to let go.

– Tahereh Mafi –

She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them the bread of every day must lose its savour. Only hearts like hers, fated to bear an infinite frustration, could feed on its intolerable absence.

– François Mauriac – Thérèse

Reading the poems that you saved

they make the gloomy hours make sense

or do they lose their power

with the yellowing of age

I saw you suffering

through a foggy window in the rain

when you thought no one was watching …

going through your memories

like so many prisons to escape

become someone else

With another face

and another name

no more suffering …

The past is like a braided rope

each moment tightly coiled

Too tired for imagining

that you could ever love somebody else

somewhere far away

from another time

and another place

with another life

and another face

and another name

No more suffering

Chris Cornell – Through The Window

Ph : Elipa

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky – White Nights