Troubled heart beating in a sequin dress

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us— Pablo Neruda

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
-Nikos Kazantzakis

There’s nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
-Hemingway

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
-Robert Mallett

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
-Hugh Macleod

Art is not a matter of pointing up alternatives but rather of resisting, solely through artistic form, the course of the world, which continues to hold a pistol to the heads of human beings.
-Theodor Adorno

I dreamed about you, baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah, but some of you was light.

- Leonard Cohen

Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable.

-A.S. Byatt

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
 -Seneca