You Have To Love. You Have To Feel. It Is The Reason You Are Here On Earth. You Are Here To Risk Your

i.

the end of the day like the last stop of a train, the sun too  is on its way out of sight,

past the horizon with its  dusk and all the stars.

ii.

tomorrow is a window onto hope, growing like a flower in soil gently tilled,

like the way you are gentle flow  and ebb, between here and now, there and soon… and in between 

the pages tucked, feather light  the mark you booked — through all the cracks, 

the shimmering edge of everything  disappearing into this… a halo  of softness, what is an angel anyway 

but a disguise… for all the places  you didn’t look, some being  holds the torch quietly… when you don’t. 

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.

Howard Thurman

“It’s weird to feel someone’s attention on you that way, like you’re the only thing in the world they’re listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they’re going to say next.”

— Lilith Saintcrow, Jealousy

“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.”

— Unknown

Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown (via resqectable)

Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

“…your chest is becoming the field I want to be buried in.”

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, from “Atlas”

And I wondered what it was like to be chosen. I was never chosen. I was a maybe, a probably, sometimes even a definitely but never the one, never the chosen one.

Unknown

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold