“I Have An Absolute Need For Countryside, Quiet, Solitude.”

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

English Proverb

It’s never too late to change the direction that your life is going in.

Wayne Dyer

“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Beatrice Letters

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

AI art and humanity

Take care of your loved ones, particularly when they are doing everything in their power to push you away. A broken heart, like a wounded beast, will often lash out at those it is nearest, but that does not mean they don’t need you.

Beau Taplin

Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you’re temporarily upset.

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Jimmy Santiago Baca, from “I Am Offering This Poem”

You know you are doing well when you lose the interest of looking back.

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