Human beings are funny

"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly inside."

Sigmund Freud

We assume others show love the same way we do

"We assume others show love the same way we do - and if they don’t, we worry it’s not there."

Unknown

still

Love conquers

"Love conquers distance and time, love endures all, it’s been around since the beginning, and will be there until the end."

Things in my mind

Ask yourself what is really important

"Ask yourself what is really important and then have the courage to build your life around your answer."

When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself

"When it comes to being gentle, start with yourself. Don’t get upset with your imperfections. Being disappointed by failure is understandable, but it shouldn’t turn into bitterness or spite directed at yourself. It’s a great mistake——because it leads nowhere—to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, disappointed because you are disappointed."

St. Frances de Sales

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

This is perfection

"I have no desire to write. The sun, the leaves, the shade, the warmth, are so alive that they lull the senses, calm the imagination. This is perfection. There is no need to portray, to preserve. It is eternal, it overwhelms you, it is complete."

Anaïs Nin, from  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

Courage

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

Our gratitude

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

Cynthia Ozick

We are afraid to care too much

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

 Eleanor Roosevelt 

Do not seek the because

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

Anais Nin 

I have gained the freedom to express my true nature.

Difference between you and me is that I have gained the freedom to express my true nature. And what could be more beautiful than truth and freedom? -Art School Confidential

The Artist is

“The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.”

E. E. Cummings

La libertad de pensamiento

La libertad de pensamiento no se plantea como modelo, pues simplemente ofrece a los hombres la posibilidad de hacer emerger en ellos el poder de pensar y de asumir esta libertad: «La que enseña a los hombres a morir como se aprende a vivir».

Montaigne

If you correct your mind

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place."

Lao Tzu 

We’re mostly water

"We forget we’re 

mostly water

till the rain falls

and every atom

in our body

starts to go home."

Albert Huffstickler, We Forget

Few reminders

From joy I come; for Joy I live

I shall drink the everlasting nectar of Joy found in the fountain of meditation... From joy I come; for Joy I live....