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"...let happy memories sustain you if your strength fails you, they are always there, and their current does not run backwards, even across foggy country it floats toward the future."
-Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
"Dum Spiro, spera." -Cicero
I feel most at home among my best friends, I feel content typing surrounded by a few of my favourite books (usually Jonathan Carroll and a few art monograph books) and my dictionary. I've found out that I'm happiest when wearing a plain blue shirt, jeans and socks around the house. I enjoy adventures a great deal but find the best things to be home, wherever home may be this year. I love being home in the quiet, i love those mornings where the sun is trying to squeeze through my windows and I can hear nothing but birds outside and quiet. I love falling asleep in sunny parks and waking up thirty minutes later with an intense hunger and a good book.
I'm trying to get used to Portland,Or and the strange silence.
two acts of kindness i recieved after opening a book
Denied our names, our faces,
we lie in the graves of our identity
with a stranger's pennies in our eyes,
seeking to reclaim ourselves
from the spaces between
what we remember doing
and what we yet might do.
-Wendelessen, from "The Graves of Strangers"
"Your treasure house is within;
it contains all you will ever need.
-Hui Neng
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn... "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you."
-T.H.White, THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
"...If you grin-I can breathe. If you laugh I have enough food in me to go another couple of days."
-Jonathan Carroll, A CHILD ACROSS THE SKY
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