“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

― H. Jackson
Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“He’s more myself that I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”

Emily Bronte

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

-- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire)

.-- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire)

– Wuthering Heights

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

― Dr. Seuss

--J.R. R. Tolkien from the book The Hobbit

“I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.”

― Shane Koyczan

If those I loved were lost

The Crier's voice would tell me --

If those I loved were found

The bells of Ghent would ring --

Did those I loved repose

The Daisy would impel me.

Philip -- when bewildered

Bore his riddle in!

“I've been told

that people in the army

do more by 7:00 am

than I do

in an entire day

But if I wake

at 6:59 am

and turn to you

to trace the outline of your lips

with mine

I will have done enough

and killed no one

in the process.”

―Shane Koyczan

that all of this shit

is just debris

leftover when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought

we used to be

and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself

get a better mirror

look a little closer

stare a little longer

because there’s something inside you

that made you keep trying

despite everyone who told you to quit

you built a cast around your broken heart

and signed it yourself

you signed it

“they were wrong”

because maybe you didn’t belong to a group or a click

maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball or everything

maybe you used to bring bruises and broken teeth

to show and tell but never told

because how can you hold your ground

if everyone around you wants to bury youbeneath it

you have to believe that they were wrong

they have to be wrong”

―Shane Koyczan

Because I could not stop for Death,

 He kindly stopped for me;

 The carriage held but just ourselves

 And Immortality.

- Emily Dickinson (extract, The Chariot)

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

 Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,

 For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

 From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,

 Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,

 And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,

 Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.

 Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,

 And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell

 And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

 And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?

 One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally

 And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

- John Donne