You never think you will become

You never think you will become one of those people who goes to restaurants alone and eats alone and drives two hours to go chill by a lake in the middle of nowhere alone but then you do.

- Note to Self

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. - Harry Maht

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.

- Harry Maht

Your being has been the door

Your being has been the door that allowed me to reach fresh air for the first time.

- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé c. October 1903

At times I suffer

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me, I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

- H.G. Wells

Wanting to be that place

Wanting to be that place where inner and outer meet, this morning I am listening to the river inside, also to the river out the window.

- Margaret Gibson

So today I awakened feeling like a flower

So today I awakened feeling like a flower, suave, smooth, gentle. I awakened in a pure aloneness which is not loneliness.

- Anaïs Nin

The two of them were rare

The two of them were rare, rarity in the air. They felt rare, not part of the thousand people wandering the streets. The two of them were sometimes conspiratorial, they had a secret life because no one would understand them. And also because the rare ones are persecuted by the people who don’t tolerate the insulting offense of those who are different. They hid their love so as not to wound the eyes of others with envy. So as not to wound them with a spark too luminous for the eyes.

- Clarice Lispector

She is full of love

She is full of love
Her silence, words,
pain, madness
all speak love.

She lose herself
in nature
She find herself
in innocence.

Kindness, is her
way of life.
Her soul played
silence like
it was
an instrument
the world had
never known.

Away from the
worldy touch now
she belongs
to herself.

Many people lose the small

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for big happiness.

- Pearl S. Buck

Happiness is often associated with romantic

Happiness is often associated with romantic
love. I don't think that's right. Happiness is an
early morning walk. Happiness is when the
food in front of you makes your mouth water.
Happiness is when you stay up late talking to
an old friend. Happiness is a cup of coffee and
a good book. We need to stop associating
happiness with love, and start associating
happiness with life.