“Your leaving carried its own light.”
Source: Nearly: Poems
“It is as if we are all tempted to view ourselves as men on horseback. The horse represents a lusty animal-way of living, untrammeled by reason, unguided by purpose. The rider represents independent, impartial thought, a sort of pure cold intelligence. Too often the pilgrim lives as though his goal is to become the horseman who would break the horse's spirit so that he can control him, so that he may ride safely and comfortably wherever he wishes to go. If he does not wish to struggle for discipline, it is because he believes that his only options will be either to live the lusty, undirected life of the riderless horse, or to tread the detached, unadventuresome way of the horseless rider. If neither of these, then he must be the rider struggling to gain control of his rebellious mount. He does not see that there will be no struggle, once he recognizes himself as a centaur.”
Source: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“Finding More Fallen Out Hair On Your Pillow, Watching Your Favorite Stuffed Bread Disappear From Convenience Stores... The Accumulation Of Those Little Despairs Is What Makes A Person An Adult.”
Source: 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]
“If the path forward seems unclear, plant something. Care for it. Let the seasons teach you what comes next.”
“Poetry, just like life, is never what we want it to be.”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“Some things in life don’t want to be fixed—they prefer the imperfections they are.”
Source: Momenteering: The Misadventures of Living Other People's Moments
“Acceptance is a simple concept, but difficult to master.”
Source: It's Only Anxiety: How to Recover from Anxiety & Panic
“My mom just sighs and says, "It was a different time," and he was a young man, but nobody's convinced, not even her.
What else is there to say, though?
It happened. Welcome to earth.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“It used to be that I would look for the deeper meaning in everything, thinking that I was some kind of hermeneutic sleuth moving through the world, but I stopped that when I was twelve. Though I would have been unable to articulate it then, I have since come to recognize that I was abandoning any search for elucidation of what might be called subjective or thematic meaning schemes and replacing it with a mere delineation of specific case descriptions, from which I, at least, could make inferences, however unconscious, that would allow me to understand the world as it affected me. In other words, I learned to take the world as it came. In other words still, I just didn’t care.”
Source: Erasure
“Good things fade because we’re not in heaven.
Bad times pass because we’re not in hell.
On earth, all things rise and fall.”