J Kropa

“It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“So many are alive who don’t seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched.   But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
― Lewis Mumford