Any time gone by was better.
-Jorge Manrique
et me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarrelled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.
-Ramana Maharshi
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.