"Nothing is certain,” he murmured. “The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice."
Anonymous
Inspiration
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
Mark Strand
"When it is dark enough you can see the stars."
Charles A. Beard
"Happiness is like the rainbows of life... Rainbows aren't real. You can't walk up and touch one. It's a trick of light. That doesn't mean you've never seen one. And I bet every time it's happened, you smiled."
Terri Osburn
"Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices."
Mamur Mustapha
Inspiration
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Evelyn Glennie
"Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth."
Larry McMurtry
Inspiration
I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage of the fact that I will be completely unresponsive when you read this, and therefore incapable of messing things up.
Amy Plum
"I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again."
Alexa Vega
Inspiration
The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
Author
"Though he wouldn’t take it or offer it back, she gave. She squeezed it into him and held it there. She accepted him. She loved him in his wretchedness, kissed his ragged cheek, and called him /father./."
A.S. Peterson
"Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?"
Louise Penny