“To Hell With Them. Nothing Hurts If You Don’t Let It.”

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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

— Jeremy Radin, from “So I Locked Myself Inside a Star for Twenty Years.”

Marian Engel, from Notebooks: "Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute"

Text ID: Art is always becoming.

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. 

“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”

— iambrillyant

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami

“When all the wild summer was in her gaze”

—

William Butler Yeats 

Leo Quotes

“I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.”

—

Sylvester Stallone

Leo Quotes