“I can finally name the creeping feeling that I felt over the past 48 hours since the R&R phase began. It is simply the realisation that this incredible trip is slowly coming to an end and that I have been dreading the return to Lima because once we end up setting foot here it means that the hardships, the challenges and the learning experiences are over.”
Source: Peruvian Days
“Staying with someone in ignorance is worse than leaving them.”
“So he is your intended, then?" He asks it casually enough. A smile still rests on his lips. But one mental switch and I can see he's swirling with a dark green. Jealousy in its deepest rawest form.”
Source: Daughter of the Siren Queen
“Winter rain on moss soundlessly recalls those happy bygone days”
Source: The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
“No I can only tell what you're feeling."
This seems to give him great alarm. His emotions turn form a glowing, vibrant red to light gray almost instantly.”
Source: Daughter of the Pirate King
“Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.”
“You want to cry, because you remember what sex used to mean to you, before. Before you realized how good it could feel, before you discovered what you liked. But you push it out of your mind. You push it all out of your mind.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Too must sentiment and no reason, destroys both the path and the pedestrian.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Journaling, a tool to help us express, rather than suppress, our thoughts, feelings, and insights. Journaling has been shown to lower distress and depression, enhance psychological well-being, and improve physical health. This is especially true when we try to make sense of a situation and deal with it constructively as we write about it.”
Source: Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything
“Thinking takes time. Feeling . . . not so much. Feeling is instant. It's reaction. But thinking? Thinking is hard work. Feeling doesn't take any work at all. I'm not saying it's wrong. Not saying it's right either. It just is. How I feel . . . I can't trust that, not right away, because how I feel today may not be how I feel tomorrow. Most people don't want to think through things. It's a whole lot easier not to. But time in the saddle gives a man lots of time to think.”
Source: Where the Lost Wander