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"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain." -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of angels. " -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength". - Sigmund Freud

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England William Shakespeare, Richard II , Act 2

"I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships." - Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And here we are as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. -Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"

"She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care." -Douglas Adams, MOSTLY HARMLESS

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down". - KURT VONNEGUT Jr.

“If they had only heard those boys in France and Flanders who called out ‘Early Doors!’ themselves in a theatrical memory, as they went so early in their youth to break down the doors of death.”. G.K.Chesterton

"My dear I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning". ZELDA TO F.SCOTT FITZGERALD, 1931

"According to Grek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two seperate beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves".            -PLATO'S   THE SYMPOSIUM

I HAVE CONVINCED MYSELF THAT THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD-NO SKY, NO EARTH, NO MINDS, NO BODIES. DOESN'T IT FOLLOW THAT I DON'T EXIST? NO, SURELY I MUST EXIST IF IT'S ME WHO IS CONVINCED OF SOMETHING. BUT THERE IS A DECEIVER, SUPREMELY POWERFUL AND CUNNING WHOSE AIM IS TO SEE THAT I AM ALWAYS DECEIVED. BUT SURELY I EXIST, IF I AM DECEIVED. LET HIM DECEIVE ME ALL HE CAN, HE WILL NEVER MAKE IT THE CASE THAT I AM NOTHING WHILE I THINK THAT I AM SOMETHING. THUS, HAVING FULLY WEIGHED EVERY CONSIDERATION, I MUST FULLY CONCLUDE THAT THE STATEMENT "I AM, THEREFORE I EXIST" MUST BE TRUE WHENEVER I STATE IT OR MENTALLY CONSIDER IT. -DESCARTES, MEDITATIONS II

“Girlfriends have to be cheerful,” he insisted, “light and bright is essential, otherwise, what’s the point?” - Michael Winner

"Beautiful as a statue, tender as a night of love in the moonlight." -Leopold Sdar Senghor

"I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it". Jonathan Safran Foer , Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something seperate from us. So, when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves." Andy Goldsworthy

Giri’ is an essential part of Japanese society. It means the burden of obligation to all whom you encounter in your daily life.

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost." Gustave Flaubert

"So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger- because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being." Jack Kerouac

  "I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., I am gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes." Unknown

"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." - Morticia Addams

"I only feel like myself when I am alone." -Peter Cameron,   Someday this pain will be useful to you.

"The breaking of a wave can not explain the whole sea." -Vladimir Nabokov

"Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out." -Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

"Art never comes from happiness." - Chuck Palahniuk , CHOKE

How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day.   To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before.   Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day. A.E.HOUSMAN