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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #2
    Lang Leav
    “Before I fell
    in love with words,
    with setting skies
    and singing birds—
    it was you I fell
    in love with first.”
    Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

  • #3
    J. Krishnamurti
    “Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”
    J. Krishnamurti

  • #4
    L.R. Knost
    “Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you”
    L.R. Knost

  • #5
    Sappho
    “and on a soft bed
    delicate
    you would let loose your longing”
    Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

  • #6
    Yasmin Mogahed
    “Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.”
    Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
    tags: fall

  • #7
    Thomas Paine
    “These are the times that try men's souls.”
    Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

  • #8
    Greta Christina
    “Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We’re angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.”
    Greta Christina, Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Woman is the light of God.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    “Unable to perceive the shape of You,
    I find You all around me.
    Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
    It humbles my heart,
    For You are everywhere.”
    Hakim Sanai

  • #11
    Sappho
    “When they were tired

    Night rained her
    thick dark sleep
    upon their eyes.”
    Sappho, Sappho

  • #12
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #13
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #14
    Tara Conklin
    “I was wrong to tell you that this is a story about the failures of love. No, it is about real love, true love. Imperfect, wretched, weak love. No fairy tales, no poetry. It is about the negotiations we undertake with ourselves in the name of love. Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results. This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it.

    And yet, And yet! We believe in love because we want to believe in it. Because really what else is there, amid all our glorious follies and urges and weaknesses and stumbles? The magic, the hope, the gorgeous idea of it. Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we teach for?”
    Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics
    tags: love

  • #15
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #16
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #17
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

  • #18
    Anne Carson
    “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”
    Anne Carson

  • #19
    Anne Carson
    Nighthawks

    I wanted to run away with you tonight
    but you are a difficult woman
    the rules of you -

    Past and future circle round us
    now we know more now less
    in the institute of shadows.

    On a street black as widows
    with nothing to confess
    our distances found us

    the rules of you -
    so difficult a woman
    I wanted to run away with you tonight.”
    Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

  • #20
    Sappho
    “I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. Kle”
    Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

  • #20
    Sappho
    “I am weary of all your words and soft, strange ways.”
    Sappho, Fragments

  • #21
    “Were all religions and all scriptures of the world to be lost, and were there nothing left to us except the starry heavens, the story of the zodiac and the significance of the names of the various stars found in the different constellations, we should be able to retrace the history of man, recover the knowledge of our goal and learn the mode of its achievement”
    Moriah Marston, Soul Searching with Djwahl Khul, the Tibetan

  • #22
    Czesław Miłosz
    “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
    Czeslaw Milosz

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world has changed.
    I see it in the water.
    I feel it in the Earth.
    I smell it in the air.
    Much that once was is lost,
    For none now live who remember it.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #25
    “Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
    Orestes: It’s rotten work.
    Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
    Anne Carson, Euripides

  • #26
    Marie-Louise von Franz
    “People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.”
    Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

  • #27
    Claude Monet
    “I must have flowers, always, and always.”
    Claude Monet

  • #28
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #29
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle



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