Always Spare The Best
 

If you can't be kind, you must be quiet.

:praying:

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

on glass ceilings
 

"How many women had to hit that glass before the first crack appeared? How many cuts did they get, how many bruises? How hard did they have to hit the ceiling? How many women had to hit that glass to ripple it, to send out a thousand hairline fractures? How many women had to hit that glass before the pressure of their effort caused it to evolve from a thick pane of glass into just a thin sheet of splintered ice?

So that when it was my turn to run, it didn’t even look like a ceiling anymore. I mean, the wind was already whistling through — I could always feel it on my face. And there were all these holes giving me a perfect view to other side. I didn’t even notice the gravity, I think it had worn itself away. So I didn’t have to fight as hard, I had time to study the cracks. I had time to decide where the air felt the rarest, where the wind was the coolest, where the view was the most soaring. I picked my spot in the glass and called it my target. And I ran. And when I hit finally that ceiling, it just exploded into dust."

--Shonda Rhimes

Full speech can be found here.

fortunately someone who understood
what was on the panes bought everything in the studio
almost no letters were there but on the glass
they turned up face after face
of the light before anyone had beheld it
there were its cobbled lanes leading far into themselves
apple trees flowering in another century
lilies open in sunlight against former house walls
worn flights of stone stairs before the war
in days not seen except by the bent figure
invisible under the hood
who had just disappeared

--W.S. Merwin

“I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here”
― W.S. Merwin

“And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale,
so blinding in its effect
that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun,
that my innards possess magnetic qualities
able to call vast fortunes together.
And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.”
― D.B.C. Pierre

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.--William Makepeace Thackeray

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.--Galileo Galilei

Most definitely...
 

“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

-Paul Coelho