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“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Oh, dear child, happiness is a garden, but one has to plant the seed and endure the cold winter.”
― Zohreh Ghahremani, Moon Daughter

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

“We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certitude it generates is paralyzing.”
― Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong?

“My greatest dream is always to be luckier.”
― Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“If a cord is severed, you may tie it together again. But the knot in the middle, shall forever remain.”
― Zohreh Ghahremani, Moon Daughter

“A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“My body is but the lees of my better being.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.”
― Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose

“I am their blood and bones, I have dug in this ground, this is my home. But I am not their blood, the ground doesn’t care who digs it, I am a stranger at a cocktail party.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I have a thin skin.

I think this is part and parcel of depression and anxiety - to be precise - being a person quite likely to get depression and anxiety … I don’t fight it. I accept things more. This is who I am. And besides, fighting it actually makes it worse. The trick is to befriend depression and anxiety. To be thankful for them, because you can deal with them a lot better. And the way I have befriended them is by thanking them for my thin skin.

Sure, without a thin skin I would have never known those terrible days of nothingness. Those days of either panic, or intense, bone-scorching lethargy. The days of self-hate, or drowning under invisible waves. I sometimes felt, in my self-pity, too fragile for a world of speed and right angles and noise. (I love Jonathan Rottenberg’s evolutionary theory of depression, that is to do with the being unable to adapt to the pendent: 'An ancient mood system has collided with a highly novel operating environment created by a remarkable species.’)

But would I go along to a magical mind spa and ask for a skin-thickening treatment? Probably not. You need to feel life’s terror to feel its wonder.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories