_____BUT when she came up against me like silver foil all fragrance and warm presence - everything else was gone from my mind.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
— Steve Jobs

"Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require
that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and
the fortitude of the certain."
~Leo Buscaglia~

"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it"
— Mark Twain

"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."
— Kim Basinger

I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even
their contents, even me, woken
by the cold and thrill, and still
they said, like the Dutch verb for falling
silent that English has no accommodation for
in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.

Zwijgen by Saskia Hamilton (1967)

“Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient.” ― Michael Christos Zeis

“Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.” ― Gail Caldwell


“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?” ― Rainer Maria Rilke,

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings

"Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more."
— Abigail Buren

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
— Ambrose Redmoon

"Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."
— Francis Bacon