“It brings me
back to the moment,
and I want to live
the moment with everything I’ve got.”
Source: The Day Before
“I wanted to become a person who didn’t envy others. After all, life wasn’t a competition, it was a personal journey”
Source: The Carousel Painter
“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand...hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moments, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.”
Source: Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”
Source: Embody
“Like go for a walk, say a little prayer
Take a deep breath of mountain air
Put on my glove and play some catch
It's time that I make time for that
Wade the shore and cast a line
Look up a long lost friend of mine
Sit on the porch and give my girl a kiss
Start livin', that's the next thing on my list.”
“Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.”
Source: BodyWorld
“..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.”
Source: Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
“I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to care for, to call her own, she helped out at the store, then came home and sat in her big chair and stared at her magazines, not at them but through them, she let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Little tree filled his lungs with the white airness of the night, as if he were going to fly.
The living voice of his parents. Elisha's eyes. These were reasons enough to set off on another adventure.
Reasons to be Toby Lolness again.”
Source: Toby Alone