“Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.”
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“Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something else
They’d have done it.
If there are other matters and other worlds
There are.”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something else
They’d have done it.
If there are other matters and other worlds
There are.”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”
― Anne's House of Dreams
― Anne's House of Dreams
“I’d like to have enough time and quiet
To think about absolutely nothing,
To not ever feel myself living,
To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
To think about absolutely nothing,
To not ever feel myself living,
To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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