Ryan

“The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.”
― John Henry Newman

“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“The only way not to be unhappy is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything else as nothing.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert ~ Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand