Juniperus

“Intense grief, like intense love, is something you can never suppress, however hard you try. There are days when I feel as though I cannot make my life stretch far enough. Life is like a piece of cloth which has to be stretched over something. Sometimes it's too big, and there's a surplus; sometimes, there's exactly the right amount you need to be happy, and sometimes there just isn't enough, and when you stretch it, it tears.”
― Sofia Tolstoy, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy: A Chronicle of Marriage to Leo Tolstoy and Turbulent Turn-of-the-Century Russia

“Water undergoes countless changes but water is still water. In the same way, although the conscious mind appears to undergo changes, the original unmoving mind does not change.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“What women look like is considered important because what we say is not.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“The secret of peace: a devout worship of the moment. Ironically: with most people this comes naturally.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath