[thoughtkick]

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Warren Buffett

[thoughtkick]

“True happiness comes only by making others happy.”

— David O. Mckay

[x-viridity]

we’re all withering like the flowers you pick

[perfectfeelings]

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and Song of Despair

[remanence-of-love]

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[remanence-of-love]

[thoughtkick]

“Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

[quotes-thoughts-prayers-poetry]

[surqrised]

“My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.”

— Jillian Medoff

[soracities]

I looked at my mother because I was a version of my mother. I looked away from my mother because I was a version of my mother. I was me, but I was also her—my mother, and I understood this all too well.

— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)

[stay-close]

“It’s about who you miss at 2 in the afternoon when you’re busy, not 2 in the morning when you’re lonely.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Buddha

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

[stay-close]

“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

— Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

[perfectquote]

“Your journey will be much lighter and easier if you don’t carry your past with you.”

— Unknown

[thehopefulquotes]

“I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m trying to find myself.”

— Unknown