Cole

“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”
― Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds

“Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Mornings at Blackwater

For years, every morning, I drank
from Blackwater Pond.
It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,
the feet of ducks.

And always it assuaged me
from the dry bowl of the very far past.

What I want to say is
that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.

So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,
and put your lips to the world.

And live
your life.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird

“Comme si cette grande colère m'avait purgé du mal, vidé d'espoir, devant cette nuit chargée de signes et d'étoiles, je m'ouvrais pour la première fois à la tendre indifférence du monde.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger