“Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing—the reason they can fly.”
― Mary Oliver
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science,
but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
— W. H. Auden
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship
can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.” ― Orson Welles
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns,
oblivious of the rose.” — Kahlil Gibran
“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me,
within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours,
Albert Camus”
And all my days are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams—
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams.
Edgar Allan Poe
“When two friends understand each other totally,
the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume.”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes
“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone,
for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors,
our children and our hearts.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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