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"So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or

the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of

Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at

the front desks of our public libraries."

—Kurt Vonnegut via my good friend Jack C. Buck

"You die when you stop feeling,

I will live forever"

via- I Wrote This For You

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own 

insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable 

violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. 

To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. 

To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is 

simple. 

To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try 

and 

understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” 

-Arundhati Roy

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness

and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

love one another but make not a bond of love: let

it rather be a moving sea between the shores

of your souls"

-Kahlil Gibran

Small Woman

Patara Qalo means small woman. It is about a man who loves a small woman who doesn't love him back. Sad, but a very beautiful song.

‎"There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our 

attention: victims of hunger, of racism and political 

persecution... human rights are being violated on every 

continent. More people are oppressed than free. How can one 

not be sensitive to their plight? Human suffering anywhere 

concerns men and women everywhere."

-Elie Wiesel

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the 

dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps 

you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a 

question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at 

night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when 

someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the 

moment after the door closes and you’re alone in the whole 

house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful 

if you listen carefully.” 

-Norton Juster

"You die when you stop feeling. 

I will live forever"

via -I Wrote This For You

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
 

So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the 

ones who don’t.
 

And believe that everything happens for a reason.
 

If you get a chance, take it; if it changes your life, let it.

"I brought down the sky for you, 

 

but all you did was shrug"

"I won't let you close enough
to hurt me"
-Adele

home

we live half in the day time & we, we live half at night time

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. 

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether 

it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will 

try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I 

can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms 

I allow myself to

use — silence, exile and cunning.” ~James Joyce

& it's everpresent everywhere

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who 

compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on

me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, 

who does not believe me naive or innocent, 

who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

-anais nin

“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction 

and at such a speed...

It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. 

But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all 

clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high 

enough to see beyond horizons.”

-Richard Bach

Ran Hwang

"There is no pain.

Just atoms becoming humans and picnics, lovers and stars. 

And then something else. And sometimes it feels 

like 

if the wind blew too hard, it'd take us all with it. You don't 

have to close your eyes. There is no pain. Just atoms 

becoming the blood that pumps through your heart and the 

knot in your throat, the clouds above us and air 

inside 

your lungs. There's nothing to cry about. There is no pain. 

Just the light from distant suns and flocks of birds. 

The 

sensation of time passing. Waves against the sky. Those 

shudders that run through your body, aren't there. 

Your nose isn't blocked. There is no pain."

-I Wrote This For You

“I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want 

the heavens 

or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have 

those things already. I want…a steady hand. 

A kind soul. I want 

to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to 

love, and be loved.” 

-Shana Abé

"Love is why I came 

here in the first place."

-John Denver

"If you think I can tell you what's going

in inside my heart, you know even 

less about it than you think."

"Don't leave it all unsaid, 

somewhere in the
 

wasteland of your head"
 

-Steven Patrick Morrissey

""And maybe something's missing in your mind. 

Maybe you 

don't work the same way everyone else does. Maybe you're just 

different. That would be good news."


-I Wrote This For You

Wanderlust

W

words on paper

"But I love your feet only 

because they walked upon the earth 

and upon the wind and upon the waters, 

until they found me."

-Pablo Neruda

stateless

"Suddenly the world is filled with a beauty
 

that's almost painful to behold.

Or maybe it's always been like this.
 

And you're just noticing it for the first time."

-I Wrote This For You

"Never use emotion as a weapon,
 
it strikes deeper than you can imagine."

"There are all kinds of love in the world, 

but never the same love twice"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Most people don’t know what they want or feel. 

And for everyone, myself included, it’s very difficult 

to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. 

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, 

to express what you have to… As an artist, I feel that we must 

try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must 

have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to 

really express it all."

 -J. CASSAVETES

"For you,

 a thousand times over"

-The Kite Runner

"But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats.

no one can avoid them. but it's better to lose some

of the battles in the struggles for your dreams

than to be defeated without ever knowing what 

you're fighting for."

-Paulo Coelho 

“Love can come when you’re already who you are, when 

you’re 

filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill 

the empty space.” ~Deb Caletti

"There is nothing to writing.

 All you do 

is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." 

-Ernest Hemingway 

insight, in black and white