yourself, I am the rock against which the surf crashes. Your thoughts are the surf. Let them crash over you.”
“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.
- Mitchell translation”
― Letters to a Young Poet
- Mitchell translation”
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.”
― The Language of Flowers
― The Language of Flowers
“You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.”
― Loved
― Loved
“you were not wrong for leaving you were wrong for coming back and thinking you could have me when it was convenient and leave when it was not”
― Milk and Honey
― Milk and Honey
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