True places never are. – Herman Melville
Quotes
Frida Kahlo on Strangeness
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too.
Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” – Frida Kahlo
Bon Iver – The Stems Project
Run until your legs break, love until your heart leaks.
The Fault in Our Stars
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
I love
I don’t think I love very many things but here are the ones I can think of:
I love the first sip of coffee in the morning
I love reading someone else’s words and finding a connection in them
I love the feeling a good song invokes
I love wondering
I love driving at night with no destination
I love the gentle kind of sadness like a reminder that I can feel
-Marianna Paige
From the Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket
“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”
Luck
“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” – Brian Tracy
A tribute to Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
(On airports) “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
Alive
“For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
Tell Me Something Beautiful 