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  • #1
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #2
    Nick Cave
    “And I wish that I was made of stone
    So that I would not have to see
    A beauty impossible to define
    A beauty impossible to believe

    A beauty impossible to endure
    The blood imparted in little sips
    The smell of you still on my hands
    As I bring the cup up to my lips

    No God up in the sky
    No devil beneath the sea
    Could do the job that you did, baby
    Of bringing me to my knees”
    Nick Cave

  • #3
    Nick Cave
    “You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.”
    Nick Cave

  • #4
    Isak Dinesen
    “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
    Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

  • #5
    Mary Oliver
    “I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
    I want to be light and frolicsome.
    I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
    as though I had wings.”
    Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

  • #6
    George Santayana
    “The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
    George Santayana

  • #7
    George Santayana
    “There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”
    George Santayana

  • #8
    George Santayana
    “Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
    George Santayana

  • #9
    George Santayana
    “My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
    George Santayana, Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies

  • #10
    George Santayana
    “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
    George Santayana

  • #11
    George Santayana
    “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
    George Santayana

  • #12
    George Santayana
    “We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
    George Santayana

  • #13
    George Santayana
    “Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
    George Santayana

  • #14
    Louise Glück
    “I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem
    there is no perfect ending.
    Indeed, there are infinite endings.
    Or perhaps, once one begins,
    there are only endings.”
    Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

  • #15
    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #17
    “What escapes you, never leaves you. Everything is
    a journey of trust. You have to have the kind of faith
    the flame has for the candle, that the bird has for its wings.
    Otherwise, our words have no destinations.
    Otherwise, our words are snakes that swallow our souls.

    —Richard Jackson, from “Isaac’s Consent,” Out of Place: Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014)”
    Richard Jackson, Out of Place

  • #18
    E.E. Cummings
    “Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #19
    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #20
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #21
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #22
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #23
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #24
    Mona van Duyn
    “The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
    Mona Van Duyn

  • #25
    “May the stars carry your sadness away,
    May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
    May hope forever wipe away your tears,
    And, above all, may silence make you strong.”
    Dan George

  • #26
    Nick Cave
    “It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.”
    Nick Cave



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