Sterlene

“Take the blinders from your vision
take the padding from your ears
and confess you've heard me crying
and admit you've seen my tears.”
― Maya Angelou

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.”
― Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy