Ryan

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Woman can change better'n man,''
''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
― John Stienbeck

“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden