Winter reminds us

 that everyone and everything

 needs some quiet time. 

- Katrina Mayer -

 

Never wish them pain.

That’s not who you are.

If they caused you pain,

they must have pain inside.

Wish them healing.

That’s what they need.

- Najwa Zebian -

 

 

 

 The more simple

 we are,

 the more complete

 we become.

- Auguste Rodin - 

 

 

 

 

It's easy to judge. 

It's more difficult to understand.

 Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. 

Through judging, we separate. 

Through understanding, we grow.

- Doe Zantamata -

André Varela

 

 

 I don’t control life. 

I control my reactions and actions

 but not much else. 

When I try to manipulate life, people and places, 

I end up exhausted. 

It’s not my domain.

 It’s not up to me to control outcomes.

 

 

 All changes,

 even the most longed for, 

have their melancholy; 

for what we leave behind us

 is a part of ourselves;

 we must die to one life

 before we can enter another.

- Anatole France -

 

 

Avalanche - Nick Cave - Lyrics

 

 

 Il n'y a pas d'âge

 pour réapprendre a vivre. 

On ne fait que ça

 toute sa vie.

- Françoise Sagan -

 I believe in all that has never yet been spoken

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for

may for once spring clear

without my contriving.

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,

but this is what I need to say.

May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back,

the way it is with children.

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,

these deepening tides moving out, returning,

I will sing you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.

 by Rainer Maria Rilke

 

 

We all know 

more then 

we know 

we know 

- Thornton Wilder - 

 

 

Winter walk ~ 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘢𝘬

 

ALS JE DE STENEN OP JE PAD 

NIET OPRUIMT 

VALLEN JE KINDEREN EROVER

 

 

 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

- Henri Nouwen -

Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, 

 then you inevitably become it…

that is your punishment, 

but if you never know, then you can be anything. 

There is a truth to that. 

We are not nouns, we are verbs.

 I am not a thing…an actor, a writer…

I am a person who does things…

I write, I act…and I never know what I am going to do next.

 I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

- Stephen Fry -

NITCH

 

 

 I know I’m going to get through it.

 It’s just, 

sometimes I get tired of going through it.

 

 

 

 The best fighter

 is never angry.

 - Lao Tzu -