“Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.” ThinkingKnowsLongDoeMadeTwoSometimesHardEnoughPainMotherJourneyRainFingersGlassesPhonesDo You KnowMamaInseparableEmmys Author:Karen White
“On the other hand, whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do ,and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we've been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.” IfsWantMadeDiesWorryJourneyWorstConditionsGoes OnLongingFinished Author:Thomas Bernhard
“I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.” MadeBookShowsSchoolFilmNextEasyCan DoJourneyOne DayLaughterGratefulThis LifeDramaticEncountersSomething NewAnything Is PossibleDramatic Change Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” LifeMadeCultureLostVirtueJourneyQuestsIntrovertDiscouragedExtrovertsInner Journey Author:Anais Nin