“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
— Edvard Munch
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
“Lately, I’ve been leaning toward kindness.”
— Gillian Flynn, from Sharp Objects
“Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense’s crossroad…”
—
Rainer Maria Rilke, from
Sonnets to Orpheus, Book Two, XXIX, translation by Robert Hunter
“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past ? Art and thought. That is...”
“Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”
— Mary Oliver, from “To Begin With, the Sweet Grass” in Evidence
“When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.”
“You are who you are when nobody’s watching”
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Its funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for, are the ones behind the trigger.”
— Ritu Ghatourey