“You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”
— Chadwick Boseman
“You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”
— Chadwick Boseman
“We are all such as He was—the inheritors of sin; we must all bear and bear and expiate a past which is not ours; there is in all of us—ay, even in me—a sparkle of the divine.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
“[The crucifix] stood there, crowning the rock, as it still stands on so many highway sides, vainly preaching to passers-by, an emblem of sad and noble truths: that pleasure is not an end, but an accident; that pain is the choice of the magnanimous; that it is best to suffer all things and do well.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
— James Baldwin, Collected Essays
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives.”
— bell hooks (via swissmiss)
“Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness”
— Leonard Koren (via WeCroak)
“I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.”
— Little Richard, Dead at 87
What can you know about a person? They shift
in the light. You can’t light up all sides at once. Add
a second light and you get a second darkness”
— Richard Siken, “Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light”, War of the Foxes
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
— Ecclesiastes 1:9, New International Version
“Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness and give it back to the earth’s own weight; the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus