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  • #1
    David Sheff
    “We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.”
    David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

  • #2
    David Sheff
    “It may be true that suffering builds character, but it also damages people”
    David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

  • #3
    David Sheff
    “Anne Lamott advises, “Try not to compare your insides with other people’s outsides.”
    David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Memoir of a Father's Struggle with His Son's Addiction and the Journey to Recovery

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #7
    “HEARTWORK

    Each day is born with a sunrise
    and ends in a sunset, the same way we
    open our eyes to see the light,
    and close them to hear the dark.
    You have no control over
    how your story begins or ends.
    But by now, you should know that
    all things have an ending.
    Every spark returns to darkness.
    Every sound returns to silence.
    And every flower returns to sleep
    with the earth.
    The journey of the sun
    and moon is predictable.
    But yours,
    is your ultimate
    ART.”
    Suzy Kassem

  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #9
    Matt Haig
    “A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
    Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

  • #10
    Roman Payne
    “This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.”
    Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

  • #11
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ”
    Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

  • #12
    Teju Cole
    “Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.”
    Teju Cole, Open City

  • #13
    Christopher Fowler
    “It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.”
    Christopher Fowler, Ten Second Staircase

  • #14
    Kakuzō Okakura
    “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
    Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #17
    Cornelia Funke
    “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #18
    Holly Black
    “She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
    Holly Black, Tithe

  • #19
    Van Morrison
    “Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
    Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
    Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

    - Into the Mystic
    Van Morrison, Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics

  • #20
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “To reach a port we must set sail –
    Sail, not tie at anchor
    Sail, not drift.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • #21
    John Masefield
    Sea-fever

    I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
    And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
    And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
    And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

    I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
    Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
    And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
    And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

    I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
    To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
    And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
    And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.”
    John Masefield, Sea Fever: Selected Poems

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”
    John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
    tags: sea, time

  • #23
    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #24
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Acts of Kindness:
    A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #25
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

  • #26
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    Marie Curie

  • #27
    Neil Gaiman
    “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #29
    Woody Allen
    “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
    Woody Allen

  • #30
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart



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