“Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (2.14)

"Man must, after all, be changed from within; otherwise, he merely assimilates the new material to the old pattern."

― Carl Jung

Don’t tell your daughter that when a boy is mean or rude to her it’s because he has a crush on her. Don’t teach her that abuse is a sign of love.

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

No one has ever apologized in this war. It takes too much love.

Dark of the West - Joanna Hathaway

April 10, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.

Genesis 32:30

“More love is found in grief than in love itself.”

—Lang Leav, September Love

“And all that led me—where?”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord

the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh

“Let your heart overflow in effusions of love and gratitude as you consider how the grace of God saves you each day from the snares the enemy sets in your path.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Love of God” from The Way, #434

— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Outside it is warm and blue and April.]

take heart, for I have overcome the world

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we’re all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We have little to live and much to know, and you cannot live if you do not know.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom