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  • #1
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #1
    “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
    Jon Katz

  • #2
    Muhammad Ali
    “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
    Muhammad Ali

  • #2
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    Harry Mulisch
    “Die Frage, was nun eigentlich war zwischen ihnen, würden sie später erörtern, wenn all die Tage in ihrer Erinnerung zu einem einzigen, für immer unvergeßlichen Tag zusammengeflossen sein würden. Auch die Griechen, wußte Onno, die die Grundlage für die westliche Kultur gelegt hatten, besaßen kein Wort für „Kultur“. Die Wörter entstanden erst, wenn die Sache verschwunden war.”
    Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

  • #5
    Harry Mulisch
    “Manchmal denke ich – und es fällt mir schwer das zu sagen -, daß er die Menschen besser kennt als der Chef. Der Chef ist ein Idealist, ein großer Schatz, der das Beste für die Menschen will, ohne zu wissen, mit wem er es eigentlich zu tun hat. Luzifer aber weiß, daß sie lieber Himmel und Erde untergehen lassen würden, als ihr Auto abzumelden.”
    Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Harry Mulisch
    “In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.”
    Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven
    tags: beauty

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #7
    Harry Mulisch
    “If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?”
    Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

  • #8
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #10
    Ingrid Jonker
    “I searched for my own heart
    and long after I had lost my way
    in the days trailing past with their foliage
    in the aloof sky blue with distance
    I thought I'd find my heart
    where I'd kept your eyes two brown butterflies
    and I saw the swallows swoop
    and shadows starlings”
    Ingrid Jonker

  • #11
    Jeanette Winterson
    “I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • #11
    Colleen Hoover
    “I used to love the ocean.

    Everything about her.

    Her coral reefs, her white caps, her roaring waves, the rocks they lap, her pirate legends and mermaid tails,

    Treasures lost and treasures held...

    And ALL

    Of her fish

    In the sea.

    Yes, I used to love the ocean,

    Everything about her.

    The way she would sing me to sleep as I lay in my bed

    then wake me with a force

    That I soon came to dread.

    Her fables, her lies, her misleading eyes,

    I'd drain her dry

    If I cared enough to.


    I used to love the ocean,

    Everything about her.

    Her coral reefs, her white caps, her roaring waves, the rocks they lap, her pirate legends and mermaid tails, treasures lost and treasures held.

    And ALL

    Of her fish

    In the sea.

    Well, if you've ever tried navigating your sailboat through her stormy seas, you would realize that her white caps
    are your enemies. If you've ever tried swimming ashore when your leg gets a cramp and you just had a huge meal of In-n-Out burgers that's weighing you down, and her roaring waves are knocking the wind out of you, filling your lungs with water as you flail your arms, trying to get someone's attention, but your
    friends
    just

    wave

    back at you?

    And if you've ever grown up with dreams in your head about life, and how one of these days you would pirate your own ship and have your own crew and that all of the mermaids

    would love

    only

    you?

    Well, you would realize...

    Like I eventually realized...

    That all the good things about her?

    All the beautiful?

    It's not real.

    It's fake.

    So you keep your ocean,
    I'll take the Lake.

    Colleen Hoover

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #12
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #13
    Jeanette Winterson
    “That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • #13
    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    Bob Marley

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #14
    Jeanette Winterson
    “I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  • #15
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    Helen Keller

  • #15
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?



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