Sadie

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Jelalludin Rumi

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door
is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi