映月 刘

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“taking the time to pause and reflect: In your industry or community, what are the assumptions and systems everyone believes in and relies on? Is it possible that some of them may be broken?”
― John Fitch, Time Off: A Practical Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress

“Thus the activity of preservation should be distinguished from the nostalgia accompanying fantasies of a lost home from which the subject is separated and to which he seeks to return. Preservation entails remembrance, which is quite different from nostalgia.”
― Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes