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“هزار سال پیش
شبی که ابر اخترانِ دور دست
می‌گذشت از فراز بام من
صدام کرد

چه آشناست این صدا
همان که از زمان گاهواره می‌شنیدمش
همان که از درون من صِدام می‌کند

هزار سال میان جنگل ستاره‌ها پیِ تو گشته‌ام
ستاره‌ای نگفت
کزین سرای بی‌کسی
کسی صدات می‌کند؟

هنوز دیر نیست
هنوز صبر من
به قامت بلند آرزوست

عزیز همزبان من
تو در کدام کهکشان نشسته‌ای؟!...”
― هوشنگ ابتهاج

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“what I wanted
was to be willing
to be afraid”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“I believed in the world.
Oh, I wanted

to be easy
in the peopled kingdoms,
to take my place there,
but there was none

that I could find
shaped like me.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“And probably, if they don’t waste time looking for an easier world, they can do it.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“How does any of us live in this world? One thing compensates for another, I suppose. Sometimes what’s wrong does not hurt at all, but rather shines like a new moon.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors to my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“One by one, I must forgive the shames and cruelties I have slung at myself for choices made at desperate moments, or for spending so long waiting for literally anyone but myself to tell me that I am indeed the creature that I suspect I am.”
― Jenny Slate, Lifeform

“All of the people who love me, all of my family who have loved me, have never left me. They gather from their other dimensions, and they make a small family party. They prepare all of the food and they do all of the talking. They are not visiting, they have descended into a place that exists as a perpetual home for anyone in our family ever. We come here to be born, to give birth, to die, and then when we are dead we attend all events. All of my dead relatives proclaim, with their presence here, that we are an unbroken group. And they say, “We have always been loving you and we have never left you.”
― Jenny Slate, Lifeform

“if you’re kicking yourself for not having accomplished all you thought you should have by now, don’t worry about it. People bloom at different stages of their lives, and often more than once.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Keep finding the JOY in what you're doing, especially when the joy is not finding you”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“I tell you these stories because when I look back, I still think of my life in high school musical theater as a metaphor for pretty much everything that was to follow in the real world. I've had ups and downs; I've had successes and senior slumps. I have been the girl who has the lead and the one who wished she had the bigger part. The truth, they don't feel that different from each other. My happiness has not been found in the mosts or bests no matter how many times I expected to find it there, and I looked; believe me, once in a while, I still look. We are all told it is there, all the time.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“When you are engrossed in a good book, or losing yourself in trying a new recipe or tackling something at work, and then you look up to the clock, only to realize just how many hours have passed. Whatever you want to call it: flying, sailing, surfing. It’s the way time moves differently when you are caught up in the simple joy of being yourself. It’s what can happen when you make the decision to let go of the criticism and worry and fear. And that’s where the best really lives.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“BUT here’s a secret: The lows don’t last any longer than the highs do. Like clouds on an overcast day, sometimes we have to face the fact that what happens to us in life isn’t controllable, and if we wait a while, don’t take it personally, and decide to enjoy ourselves anyway, the sky will eventually clear up.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Satisfaction is not found in the big achievements. It’s not in winning. Starring has nothing to do with how big your part is—it’s a state of mind.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“The “success” parts of life look good to others, but the best parts are actually the simple, daily experiences.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“The success parts of life might look good to others, but the best parts, are actually the simple daily experiences…When you finally achieve one of your goals, which you will, and it long last get to a place you dreamed of for years, and it does not feel the way you hoped it would, don't worry about it. I've had few achievements that felt better than morning crew sounds, and crossword puzzles with friends, and middling coffee with love, because the spotlight aspect of life, that’s not the satisfying part.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“I do however like to tell people, especially regarding writing and deadlines: "Don't be perfect, just be done.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Don’t be perfect, just be done.” Which is yet another way of saying: “Don’t worry so much.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It

“Love yourself, and what you're doing, even if you're not yet at the place you hope to land. Let joy be the thing that drives you, and I bet you'll get there faster. Give yourself permission to make mistakes. Those mistakes are as valuable as the triumphs.”
― Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It