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“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories, and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony
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“Find someone who knows how to calm your storm.”
— Donna Aradini
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
— Antole France
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“My heart now is a nest of birds that left for winter”
- from Winter Letters (Listy Zimowe)
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I understand your grief; even time does not always heal this kind of pain.
— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Auguste Franchomme wr. c. August 1848
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This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.
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Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″
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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
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“I love that moment when I look back at a challenge in my life and realize I’m now at peace with it!”
— Unknown
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“we were foxes once before we were wives before we were women. but then we never stopped being foxes, we wore our skin under our manners, women, wives and vixens all at the same time, all jumbled up, all with teeth. foxes are creatures of flame, our fur captured sunset and autumn, we cannot live in a structure, without it catching fire. so let us nurse, let us hunt, let us rest and love, but never think you can catch us, or build around us, without becoming ashen.”
— (a.v.p)
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“I try to be as fearless as possible. I don’t always succeed, but I like to think I try.”
— Zachary Quinto
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“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
— Virginia Woolf
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“Switch your mentality from ‘I’m broken and helpless’ to ‘I’m growing and healing’ and watch how your life changes.”
— Unknown
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