Gregory Eakins

“The aching nostalgia for her own youth remained—the bright Andalusian days when each hour was filled to bursting with the promise of magic, when her life lay ahead of her, inexhaustible, as yet untouched.”
― Paul Bowles, The Stories of Paul Bowles

“Whether something is uncomfortable or unpleasant has no bearing on whether it should be done. The decision and commitment must be made, if not heedless of the pain, then at least with recognition that sometimes good things require bad days.”
― Tom Foreman, My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan

“Saradamani’s mother had felt sad that her daughter had been given in marriage to one who was half mad, as it were, and who did not lead a worldly life, so that her Sarada would not know what it was to be called ‘mother’ by her children. At this Sri Ramakrishna told her: ‘Dear mother-in-law, you need not feel sorry. Your daughter will have so many children that she will afterwards be tired of being called mother.’ His prophetic words came to be so true! We do not know whether the Holy Mother was ever tired of her children. But it is a fact that no mother under the sun had so many children as she had to address her as mother.”
― Pavitrananda, A Short Life of Holy Mother

“The problem is, we look for someone to grow old together, while the secret is to find someone to stay a child with.”
― Charles Bukowski