Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

I have often joked to my friends and husband that Stephen King is a talentless hack. This is because 1) his writing isn’t exactly highbrow, and 2) I’m a literary snob. But honestly, I would consider most authors “talentless hacks”, even some that I enjoy. I think it’s part of what makes the writing profession [...]

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.
Rumi

The sounds of streams
are Buddha’s speech.
The colored mountains
are Buddha’s pure body.
Night brings eighty-four
thousand poems of Buddha.
Listen, someday you may awaken.
Su Shih (1031-1101)

from artgirlx
In rivers the water you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes, so with time present.
Leondardo da Vinci

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
Henry David Thoreau

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom [...]