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good morning to eldest daughters only

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also good night to eldest daughters only

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the thing is, ellen bass / for example, mary oliver

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“I’m not a stable person, and often I encounter great difficulties in life, which often seems quite unbearable. There’s nothing I can do about that. But I love the world and life itself, and, even when in pain, I still have the pleasure of feeling part of a cosmic movement.”

— hermann hesse

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Autumn is in the air - Paris France

(Source instagram.com/davideor94)

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Interior with a Dog, Henri Matisse, 1934

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If you don't have romance or passion in your life, fictional is fine as well.

Saw this on Twitter

I have to admit. I am not living la vida loca

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Do you have any quotes for someone having a hard time?

I am so, so sorry you are hurting. I hope these words can help bring you comfort.

When the world crumbles around you, you have to look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of the pieces that are still here. Remember, you are still here. The human heart beats approximately four thousand times per hour. Each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words You are still alive. You are still alive. Act like it. ― Rudy Francisco, Complainers

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is. ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do. ― Brian Andreas

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned. ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends. — David Levithan, Six Earlier Days

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. ― Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

We are more than the worst thing that’s ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing. — Clementine Von Radics, Broken

be easy.take your time.you are coming hometo yourself. — nayyirah waheed, the becoming

I have been told, sometimes, the most healing thing to doIs remind ourselves over and over and overOther people feel this too — Andrea Gibson, The Nutritionist

I almost thanked you for teaching me something about survivalback there,but then I remembered that the ocean never handed me the gift of swimming.I gave it to myself.- —Y.Z, what I forgot to remember

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!

Kurt Vonnegut

Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press Goose Lane Editions Breakwater Books Ltd. The Acorn Press Bouton d'or Acadie Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

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banish the idea that platonic love is a lesser form of love

if you go through life not investing in your friendships the same way you invest in romantic relationships, you will always be looking for love, feeling lonely, completely blind to the love all around you

friendship is not a lower level relationship. it is not a lesser form of love.