“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.” ~ Stephen Fry

"Second-guessing yesterday will not help you today. Holding yourself hostage to what was not will not propel you into what will be."

There’s so much you can let go of in life, without losing a thing.
 

Hmmm...
 

"Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate.

Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met.

'Please do not mourn me. I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.' This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted.

When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained: 'my travels have changed me... '

Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary it said: 'every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.'"

-May Benatar, Kafka and the Doll: The Pervasiveness of Loss

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.--Dan Marino

You Don't Get A Life, You Create A Life
 

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.--Frank Lloyd Wright

“and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
the first time his fingers touched the keys
the same way a soldier holds his breath
the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
― Andrea Gibson

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts”
Ernest Hemingway

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.--Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You've all heard the phrase, 'never say never,' but sometimes you really do need to say it—like if your ex asks you to get remarried or get back together. They didn't become an ex for no reason. And sometimes, you need to lock the door behind you."

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.--Khalil Gibran

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful
than the way the ocean refuses
to stop kissing the shoreline,
no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay

“Still now I send letters into space
Hoping that some mailman somewhere will track you down
And recognise you from the descriptions in my poems
That he will place the stack of them in your hands and tell you,
There is a girl who still writes you, she doesn't know how not to”
― Sarah Kay

That....is profound my friend...wow...that's just...wow. i need a minute to let that soak in....








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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.--Rabindranath Tagore

ღ A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. ― Stephen Richard

"Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, and for once; just once, understand."
~Unknown

"Tears are words the heart can't express"
~Unknown

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.--Sidney Lanier

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison