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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.”

— Wayne Dyer

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“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”

— J.K. Rowling

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“Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, War Songs

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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth, J.R.R. Tolkien

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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

— Mary Oliver

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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─ Margaret Atwood

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"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

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Voiceless

When the world is beautiful The words fail me; I turn a quiet observer, mesmerized By the ordinary.

How could I ever explain, Being moved by these Elements and instances That are so abundant, so mundane; Out For all to see?

I go silently crazy, Madly in love with the world, With a song in my heart that swells without Lyrics.

It reminds me, humblingly, The only true love poems I wrote Were left on skin, Pressed by Lips,

In this

Sweet,

Sweet

Voicelessness.

--- 4-3-2025, M.A. Tempels ©

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It is hard, my friends, much harder than many of you think, to present the truth accurately, without sacrificing artistic form or vitality.

— Egon Erwin Kisch, The Raging Reporter

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─ Hisham Siddiqi

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Kaveh Akbar, from "Every Drunk Wants to Die Sober It's How We Beat the Game," in Calling a Wolf a Wolf

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Sometimes you have to kiss her softly and tell her that she's good enough.

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The pitch black daze Starts to lift I agree, again, To be as permanent As fate will permit I solidify I eye the clear sky I find a way to Stand on my own Two feet I remember to Allow other people To care about me - I try to I'm baby blue What I'm trying To say is that I'm finally In a lighter mood