Ryam

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“، وقال : " إن من صفقتم له لم يكن أنا
والكلمات التي
نطقت بها ليست كلماتي - بل هي مرايا
صغيرة ركِّزت أمامكم
تعكس شذرات من وجوهكم
أو توقعاتكم
وأمام كلماتي ذاتها ركزت أنا
ذاتي
كضوء آت من بعيد ، يسقط على
المرايا
. فيعكس برقاً باهراً يغشى عيونكم فلا تروني”
― يانيس ريتسوس, قصائد للحرية والحياة

“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke