“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.”
― Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
― Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“I love you every day -for the code and the blush
and the shrug of it. Make your mind up in me, and I will do the same.”
― Don't Be Interesting: Poems
and the shrug of it. Make your mind up in me, and I will do the same.”
― Don't Be Interesting: Poems
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