Let us touch each other
while we still have hands,
palms, forearms, elbows . . .
Let us love each other for misery,
torture each other, torment,
disfigure, maim,
to remember better,
to part with less pain.
Trei
The most important things in life aren't things !
Trying to forget someone you love
is like trying to remember someone you never met.
♥
The kind of hope I often think about I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don't; it is a dimension of the soul; it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but, rather, an ability to work for something that is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. In short, I think that the deepest and most important form of hope, the only one that can keep us above water and urge us to good works, and the only true source of the breathtaking dimension of the human spirit and its efforts, is something we get, as it were, from "elsewhere". It is also this hope, above all, which gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem hopeless as ours do, here and now.
- Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A conversation with Karel Hvizdala
Let us touch each other
while we still have hands,
palms, forearms, elbows . . .
Let us love each other for misery,
torture each other, torment,
disfigure, maim,
to remember better,
to part with less pain.
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Sing me The Song of Songs.
Don't know the words.
Then sing the notes.
Don't know the notes.
Then simply hum.
Forgot the tune.
Then press my ear
to your ear
and sing what you hear.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
- Alain de Botton
But tomorrow I'll be a different person, never again the person I was. Not that anyone will notice ... On the outside nothing will be different. But something inside has burned up and vanished. This is the last day for the person I am right now. The very last twilight. When dawn comes, the person I am won't be here anymore. Someone else will occupy this body.
- Haruki Murakami,
Sputnik Sweetheart
[...]
I do not know how to come closer to God
except by standing where a world is ending
for one man. It is still dark,
and for an hour I have listened
to the breathing of the woman I love beyond
my ability to love.
[...]
- Christian Wiman, from One Time
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