Most dances are for people who are falling in love. The tango is a dance for those who have survived it, and are still a little angry about having their hearts so mishandled. The Tango Lesson is a movie for people who understand that difference.Roger Ebert (1942-2013)
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.C.G. Jung
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.Tsokuyi Rinpoche
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.14th Dalai Lama
Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
If you’re brave to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.Paulo Coelho
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them…to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Books may well be the only true magic.
The future is there…looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Literature is news that stays news.
