“Sometimes the best mode of transportation is a leap of faith." ~ Marta Reis

"Words are either windows or walls." ~ Bertrand Russell

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

"Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don’t understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they’re there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it’s the other side that matters.” ~ José Saramago

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,you can nudge the world a little…. ” ~ Tom Stoppard

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly ,without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." ~ Pablo Neruda

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

"You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity,that the whole existence will miss you.The stars, sun and moon,the trees and birds and earth- everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which can't be filled by anybody but you." ~ Osho

"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth." ~ Margaret Atwood

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." ~ Pablo Neruda

"I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel
today is subject to revision tomorrow.” ~ Gwen Thomas

"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other." ~ Jose Saramago

"Be careful in casting out your devil ‘lest you cast out the
best thing about you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as
perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas,
concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

"There are days when everything is about you." ~ Rilke

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. ~ Anaïs Nin

There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one that people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. ~ Light Years - James Salter

The thing is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again
~Ellen Bass

"Who you will be is when you are finished being who you think you should be." ~ Neemkeroli Baba