those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.
// Charles Bukowski
author
MIND: Attentive
I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, “For the same reason I laugh so often – because I’m paying attention.” I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.
Love Warrior // Glennon Doyle Melton
MIND: Vecchia
Most people don’t grow up. Most people age.
They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards,
get married, have children, and call that maturity.
What that is, is aging.
// Maya Angelou
MIND: Demolish
There exists, for everyone,
a sentence – a series of words
that has the power to destroy you.
Another sentence exists, another series of words,
that could heal you.
If you’re lucky you will get the second,
but you can be certain of getting the first.
VALIS // Philip K. Dick
MIND: Simplicity
Everytime I see her, or hear her voice, or hear her thunder feet approaching I am so truly happy and I know how lucky we are to be happy that way, and never to be bored alone together.
// Ernest Hemingway
MIND: Survival
The last six months have been a unique hell,
but that’s finished and I am fine now.
// Sylvia Plath
MIND: Oblivious
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Their Eyes Were Watching God // Zora Neale Hurston
MIND: Verso
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo // Alexandre Dumas
MIND: Opportune
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
// D.H. Lawrence
MIND: Deception
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy
